The Mosquito Coast
 Dark, disturbing and utterly enthralling: Who hasn't dreamed of leaving the world behind and venturing into the unknown to recreate the world without imperfections? Seeking to escape globalisation, commercialism, and a multitude of abominations and [... more]
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Journey Without Maps (Penguin Classics)
In the heart of darkness, a ray of light: Graham Greene is a famous 20th C novelist ("The Orient Express") who also wrote a few travel accounts. This is his first, when he was 31 years old and left Europe for the first time in his life to [... more]
$15.00
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The Collected Short Novels
Author: Paul Theroux Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780140250428 ISBN: 0140250425 Number Of Pages: 435 Publication Date: 1999-01 [... more]
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The Great Railway Bazaar
A peerless and unforgettable travel narrative: This fabulous account of getting on the train in London and riding trains (including the decrepit Orient Express) through Europe, across Asia as far east as Japan, then looping back to Europe on the Trans- [... more]
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Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings
Amazon.com Review: Paul Theroux may be pompous, self-important, cynical, and grumpy. He may even be, as accused by a heckler in Australia, "a wanker." So what? The man is prolific--having penned 36 books--and when he's inspired, his insights [... more]
$27.00
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Kowloon Tong: A Novel of Hong Kong
Amazon.com Review: Paul Theroux, whose inveterate globe-trotting marks him as one of the most restless writers working today, lands us in the Far East with this novel of personal lives swept up in the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China. But the [... more]
$13.95
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The Comedians (Penguin Classics)
Amazon.com Review: One of Graham Greene's most chilling and prophetic novels, The Comedians is set in a Haiti ruled by Papa Doc and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Just as The Quiet American offered a preview of the coming horrors of [... more]
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The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey on Two Rivers (A ...
Stop it, I love it !: I had heard neither of book nor author when I unexpectedly received this book from a friend. She mentioned its being a book which presented a strong sense of place. It is indeed that, but rather more as well. Moritz Thomsen lived in [... more]
$12.95
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The Elephanta Suite: Three Novellas
Message undermines the medium: The Elephanta Suite serves as a well written and easily digested (albeit unpleasant and disturbing) warning to those who would attempt to get a close-up view of India. However, Theroux's apparent need to steer his [... more]
$25.00
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The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the ...
Amazon.com Review: Paul Theroux has developed one of travel writing's most identifiable styles: always the foreigner, always a bit apart, slightly irascible, but perfectly observant. At last he has ventured to one of the most traveled places on earth, [... more]
$16.95
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To the Ends of the Earth
Best of the Best in Travel Writing: In his Introduction Paul Theroux writes, "When something human is recorded, good travel writing happens." Theroux always records the human aspects of countries and people he meets along the way. He records [... more]
$7.99
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Jan Morris: Around the World in Eighty Years
Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9781854114242 ISBN: 1854114247 Number Of Pages: 200 Publication Date: 2007-04-01 [... more]
$17.95
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