Paul Theroux
The Great Railway Bazaar
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
From London across Europe through India and Asia, this was a trip of discovery made in the mid-seventies, a time before the West had embraced the places, peoples, food, faiths and cultures of the East. To visit the lands... Buy or find out more →
Ghost Train To The Eastern Star
$45.00$10.95 – Hardcover book / Houghton Mifflin
Acclaimed travel writer and novelist Theroux hasnt lost his affection for trains, but his view of the scenery outside has darkened in his latest odyssey. Reprising the itinerary of his 1973 "The Great Railway Bazaar" (wi... Buy or find out more →
Family Arsenal
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
IN SOUTH LONDON TERRORISTS PLOT . . .
Hood, a renegade American diplomat, envisions a new urban order in
the opium fog of his room. He flirts with terrorists, hoping to win
their trust and respect. Mayo, his sometime bed... Buy or find out more →
The Tao Of Travel: The Enlightenments From Lives On The Road
$36.95 – Hardcover book / Houghton Mifflin
Travel maestro Theroux (The Great Railway Bazaar) conducts a rambling tour of the genre in this diverting meditation on passages from his own and other writers' works. Several chapters spotlight underappreciated travel w... Buy or find out more →
Collected Stories
$24.95 – Paperback book / Hamish Hamilton
'[Theroux] makes and remakes his own world . . . The
smell, sound, sight of his scenes is always strong, even pungent;
and, even more, his dialogue is powerfully but also effortlessly
accurate'
Sunday Tel... Buy or find out more →
Ghost Train To The Eastern Star On The Tracks Of The Great Railway Bazaar
$22.95$10.95 – Paperback book / Mariner Books
Half a lifetime ago, Paul Theroux virtually invented the modern travel narrative by recounting his grand tour by train through Asia. In the three decades since, the world he recorded in that book has undergone phenomenal... Buy or find out more →
My Secret History: A Novel
$24.95 – Paperback book / Hamish Hamilton
'Written with a rare intensity of both intelligence and
feeling . . . a superbly realistic evocation of the journeys
(both dark and comical) of the human heart'
Salman Rushdie, Observer
'Nothing on the shelf h... Buy or find out more →
My Other Life: A Novel
$24.95 – Paperback book / Hamish Hamilton
A WRITER'S EPIC ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER LIFE, OF OTHER CHOICES - OF
TURNING FACT INTO EXTRAORDINARY FICTION . . .
'A memoir; a collection of short stories; an assemblage of fables;
an anthology of Theroux: a book in which he ... Buy or find out more →
Happy Isles Of Oceania Paddling The Pacific
$22.95$7.95 – Paperback book / Houghton Mifflin
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 ultimat... Buy or find out more →
Riding The Iron Rooster
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
A Dead Hand
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
'The most gifted, the most prodigal writer of his generation' JONATHAN RABAN
Jerry Delfont is a travel writer with writer's block. Lounging in Calcutta one day, he receives a mysterious letter. It comes from an American ... Buy or find out more →
The Happy Isles Of Oceania
$29.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
A wonderful book...He voyaged from the Solomons to Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Tahiti, the Marquesas and Easter Island, stepping stones in an odyssey of courage and toughness, finishing up in Hawaii...Not since Jack London has a... Buy or find out more →
The Elephanta Suite
$20.00$9.95 – Paperback book / Mariner Books
This startling, far-reaching book captures the tumult, ambition, hardship, and serenity that mark today's India. Theroux's Westerners risk venturing far beyond the subcontinent's well-worn paths to discover woe or truth ... Buy or find out more →
The Old Patagonian Express By Train Through
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
Beginning his journey in Boston, where he boarded the subway commuter train, and catching trains of all kinds on the way, Paul Theroux tells of his voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts and Illinois to the arid plateau of ... Buy or find out more →
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
The Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur and the Trans-Siberian Express – only a few of the evocative names that fill this, the story of Paul Theroux'... Buy or find out more →
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through The Americas
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Beginning his journey in Boston, where he boarded the subway commuter train, and catching trains of all kinds on the way, Paul Theroux tells of his voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts and Illinois to the arid plateau of ... Buy or find out more →
Dark Star Safari: Overland From Cairo To Capetown
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo – the hard way. Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country – Egypt, the Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Mal... Buy or find out more →
Mosquito Coast
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
The Pillars Of Hercules
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
At the gateway to the Mediterranean lie the two Pillars of Hercules. Beginning his journey in Gibraltar, Paul Theroux travels the long way round - through the ravaged developments of the Costa del Sol, into Corsica and S... Buy or find out more →
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
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Ghost Train To The Eastern Star On The Tracks Of The Great Railway
$26.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
'A brilliant eye, readable and vivid. Theroux has still got
it'
Observer
'A dazzler, giving us the highs and lows of his
journey and tenderness and acerbic humour . . . fellow-travelling
weirdoes, amateur taxi drivers, b... Buy or find out more →
Ghost Train To The Eastern Star: On The Tracks Of The Great Railway Bazaar
$16.95 – Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton
In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Paul Theroux retraces the steps he took thirty years ago in the best-selling and hugely acclaimed The Great Railway Bazaar.
From the Eurostar in London, he once again sets out on a jou... Buy or find out more →