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The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train through Asia by Paul Theroux
Category: Travel | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"The Great Railway Bazaar" is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia. Filled with evocative names of legendary train routes - the Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Hikari Super Express to Kyoto and the ...Show more
The Happy Isles of Oceania : Paddling the Pacific by Paul Theroux
Category: Travel
In one of his most exotic and breathtaking journeys, the intrepid traveler Paul Theroux ventures to the South Pacific, exploring fifty-one islands by collapsible kayak. Beginning in New Zealand's rain forests and ultimately coming to shore thousands of miles away in Hawaii, Theroux paddles alone over is ...Show more
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific by Paul Theroux
Category: Travel
This travel book follows Paul Theroux's explorations of the Pacific islands by collapsible kayak. Paddling through the islands, he also finds an unusual melting pot of cultures and contrasts.
The Kingdom By The Sea by Paul Theroux
Category: Travel
After eleven years as an American in London, Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what Britain and the British are really like. It was 1982, the summer of the Falklands War and the royal baby, and the ideal time, he found, to suprise the British into talking about themse ...Show more
The Last Train to Zona Verde: Overland from Cape Town to Angola by Paul Theroux
Category: Travel
The Last Train to Zona Verde is Paul Theroux's compelling account of his final African journey. Heading north from Cape Town, through South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Angola, Paul Theroux makes a final journey along Africa's western edge. The end of the line is the Congo but Theroux discovers that h ...Show more
The Last Train to Zona Verde: Overland from Cape Town to Angola by Paul Theroux
Category: Travel
Following the success of the acclaimed Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and The Great Railway Bazaar, The Last Train to Zona Verde is an ode to the last African journey of the world's most celebrated travel writer, Paul Theroux. 'Happy again, back in the kingdom of light,' writes Paul Theroux as he sets ...Show more
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search for utopia from bestseller Paul Theroux. Published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies ...Show more
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas by Paul Theroux
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The "Old Patagonian Express" tells of Paul Theroux's train journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston's subway, he depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip, via pretty Central American towns and the ancient Incan cit ...Show more
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train through the Americas by Paul Theroux
Category: Travel
Each time Paul Theroux takes a trip - "The Great Railway Bazaar, Riding the Iron Rooster" - the result is unmistakably Paul Theroux. And he has never been sharper than in "The Old Patagonian Express." Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chi ...Show more
The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean by Paul Theroux
Category: Travel
At the gateway to the Mediterranean lie the two Pillars of Hercules: Gibraltar and Ceuta, in Morocco. Paul Theroux decided to travel from one to the other - but taking the long way round. His grand tour of the Mediterranean begins in Gibraltar and takes him through Spain, the French Riviera, Italy, Gree ...Show more
The Pillars of Hercules - A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean by Paul Theroux
Category: Travel
At the gateway to the Mediterranean lie the two Pillars of Hercules: Gibraltar and Ceuta, in Morocco. Paul Theroux decided to travel from one to the other - but taking the long way round. His grand tour of the Mediterranean begins in Gibraltar and takes him through Spain, the French Riviera, Italy, Gree ...Show more
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad; Paul Theroux (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
With an Introduction by Graham Stewart, author of the internationally acclaimed Burying Caesar and The History of The Times, The Murdoch Years. Joseph Conrad was a remarkable and unique phenomenon in British literature. Born in Poland in 1857, he worked as a merchant seaman before turning his hand to wr ...Show more