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Having travelled down the right side of Africa in "Dark Star Safari", Paul Theroux sets out this time from Cape Town, heading northwards in a new direction, through South Africa and Namibia, to Botswana, then on into Angola, heading for the Congo, in search of the end of the line.

Ayriksi ve sivri dilli mucit Allie Fox ABDden ve temsil ettigi her seyden nefret etmekte, insanligin ve kendisinin daha iyi bir dünyada yasamayi hak ettigine inanmaktadir. Medeniyet en basindan yanlis kurgulanmis, insanlik da aptalligiyla dünyayi felakete sürüklemistir. Ama kendisi son insandir ve acikca ifade etmese de dünyayi kendisinin kurtaracagina inanir. Bir gün dört cocugu ve karisini alip arkasina bile bakmadan ülkesini terk eder ve Ho...

Paul Theroux reist vier maanden per trein door Azië. Hij doorkruist onder meer Turkije, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Birma, Maleisië, Zuid-Vietnam en de Sovjet-Unie en neemt de ultrasnelle Japanse treinen, de Oriënt-Express en de Transsiberië-Express. In zijn aanstekelijke stijl en met een scherp oog voor detail beschrijft Theroux de plaatsen en de mensen die hij onderweg tegenkomt - en daarbij spaart hij ook zichze...

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Still one of the best literary travellers we have' EVENING STANDARD

Het diepe Zuiden' van Paul Theroux gaat over het Zuiden van de Verenigde Staten, een gebied met twee gezichten: er wonen de vriendelijkste en meest gastvrije mensen van Amerika. Men hecht er het meest aan traditie, er wordt hard gewerkt, en met succes. Maar racisme ligt hier vaak nog aan de oppervlakte en het contrast tussen arm en rijk is groter dan in de rest van het land. De band met het land is intens: ondanks natuurgeweld - overstromingen...

Never a dull moment . . . Vivid and deft." - New York Review of Books Maude Pratt is a legend, a photographer famous for her cutting-edge techniques and uncanny ability to strip away the masks of the world's most recognizable celebrities and luminaries. Now in her seventies, Maude has been in the public eye since the 1920s, and her unparalleled portfolio includes intimate portraits of Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, and Picasso. While Maude posses...

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.

In the Washington Post Book World, Sven Birkerts called this exuberant novel "a complex and gripping work of invention and confession . . . I understood again how the prose of a true writer can bring us to a world beyond." The book spans almost thirty years in the life of a fictional "Paul Theroux, " who moves through young bachelorhood in Africa, in and out of marriage, affairs, and employment, and between continents. It's a wry, worldly, ero...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. The Old Patagonian Express chronicles Paul Theroux's train journey from his home in Boston, Massachusetts to the foot of South America, in 1978. Full of witty and sharp observations, Theroux goes out of his way to talk to as many locals as possible along the way.Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Theroux winds up on the poky, wandering Old Patag...

There are those who think that Paul Theroux is the finest travel writer working in English. This collection can only enhance that reputation."-The New York Times Book ReviewAuthor and travel writer Paul Theroux does what no one else can: he travels to the isolated, unusual, and fascinating spots of the world, and creates an elegy to them that makes readers feel they are traveling with him. Evocative, breathtaking, intriguing, here is the armch...

One of the most acclaimed travel writers of our time turns his unflinching eye on an American South too often overlooked. Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the far-away. Now, for the first time, in his tenth travel book, Theroux explores a piece of America--the Deep South. He finds there a paradoxical place, full of incomparable music, unparalleled cuisine...

Paul Theroux's first collection of essays and articles devoted entirely to travel writing, FRESH AIR FIEND touches down on five continents and floats through most seas in between to deliver a literary adventure of the first order, with the incomparable Paul Theroux as a guide. From the crisp quiet of a solitary week spent in the snowbound Maine woods to the expectant chaos of Hong Kong on the eve of the Hand-over, Theroux demonstrates how the ...

In his first new travel book in eight years, the endearingly irascible Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry and train.

This startling, far-reaching book captures the tumult, ambition, hardship, and serenity that mark today's India. Theroux's portraits of people and places explode stereotypes to exhilarating effect.