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Starting off on the Eurostar from London, Paul Theroux once again sets out on a railway journey through the East, travelling overland through Eastern Europe, and eventually reaching India and Asia. Infused with the changes that have shaped the exterior landscape and enriched with developments to his own perceptions and psychology, GHOST TRAIN TO THE EASTERN STAR is an absorbing and beautifully written follow-up to The Great Railway Bazaar. Ful...

Paul Theroux has written many works of fiction and travel writing, including the modern classics The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, My Secret History and The Mosquito Coast. Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands.

For the past fifty years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners of the earth - to China, India, Africa, the Pacific Islands, South America, Russia, and elsewhere - and brought them to life in his cool, exacting prose. In Deep South he turns his gaze to a region much closer to his home.Travelling through North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas, Paul Theroux writes of the stunning landscapes he dis...

Nach zehn Jahren kehrt der 72-jährige Paul Theroux zurück in sein geliebtes Afrika - »das Königreich des Lichts« - und findet ein zerstörtes Paradies. Er will von Kapstadt aus durch Namibia und Angola nach Timbuktu reisen, doch mit jeder Meile nordwärts werden das Elend, die Korruption und seine Frustration über die Entwicklungen des 21. Jahrhunderts und die verheerenden Bemühungen der Hilfsorganisationen größer.Trotz aller Schönheit, der er j...

Die Magie des Lesens - eingefangen in den Bildern des gefeierten Magnum-FotografenEin kurzer Moment der Ruhe inmitten des Chaos: Versunkenheit, Konzentration. Wenn Menschen lesen, verschwindet die Realität für kurze Zeit. In solchen magischen Augenblicken drückt Steve McCurry auf den Auslöser. Der weitgereiste Magnum-Fotograf hat die unterschiedlichsten Leser fotografiert: Kinder und Alte, Frauen und Männer, mit der Zeitung, dem Schulbuch oder...

Paul Theroux has written many works of fiction and travel writing, including the modern classics The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, My Secret History and The Mosquito Coast. Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands.

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Der Fotobildband 'Latitude Zero' erzählt von der 25'000-Meilen-Odyssee der Fotografin Monique Stauder. Drei Jahre lang reiste die Schweiz-Amerikanerin auf sich allein gestellt durch die Länder am Äquator. An der Quelle des Amazonas beginnend, folgte sie dem unsichtbaren Band in westlicher Richtung. Brasilien, Kolumbien und Ecuador lagen ebenso auf ihrem Weg wie die Pazifikstaaten Kiribati und Nauru. Weiter ging die Reise über Indonesien, die M...

An account of Paul Theroux's ultimate "safari", from Cairo to Capetown. 35, 000 copies sold in hardback. Undoubtedly one of the biggest travel books of the year. A journey of discovery and rediscovery which sets Theroux's experience of the dark continent against his journey forty years previously. "You would have to be made of very obdurate stuff indeed not to be riveted, moved and enriched by this book" "Sunday Telegraph".

Paul Theroux, one of the world's most popular authors, both for his travel books and his fiction, has produced an off-beat story of 1960s weirdos unlike anything he has ever written. During the time of Lyndon Johnson's presidency, Herbie Gneiss is forced to leave college to get a job, which happens to be at the Kant-Brake toy factory, which manufactures military toys for children. His income keeps his chocolate-loving mother, who tips the sca...

[Hock] knows he is ensorcelled by exoticism, but he can't help himself. And, as things go from bad to worse and the pages start to turn faster, neither can we. A.”—Entertainment Weekly When he was a young man, Ellis Hock spent four of the best years of his life with the Peace Corps in Malawi. So when his wife of forty-two years leaves him, he decides to return to the village where he was stationed in search of the happiness he'd been missing...

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A washed-up writer sets out for Ecuador's jungle in search of a rare hallucinogen. Traveling amid a gaggle of thrill-seeking tourists, he finds his drug, which heightens both his powers of perception and his libido but leaves him with an unfortunate side effect: periodic blindness. It's a Faustian bargain he is willing to take, as long as it helps him finish his novel.

From the Eurostar in London, this title takes us on a journey to the East, travelling overland through Eastern Europe, India and Asia.

Ellis Hock had nooit gedacht dat hij nog naar Afrika zou terugkeren. Maar als zijn vrouw bij hem weggaat en zijn dochter haar deel van de erfenis al wil opeisen, beseft hij dat er maar één plek is waar hij naartoe kan: het dorp in Malawi waar hij als jonge onderwijzer vier jaar lang zo gelukkig was. Hij treft een veranderd dorp aan: de school die hij heeft gebouwd is in verval geraakt, de kerk en de kliniek zijn verdwenen, de bevolking is ver...

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