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ISBN: 0805775064 0805747354 Year: 1987 Publisher: Boston Twayne

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My other life : a novel
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ISBN: 0140245324 Year: 1997 Publisher: London : Penguin,

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Theroux, Paul --- Fiction.


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Dark star safari : overland from Cairo to Cape Town
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ISBN: 024114048X 0241140498 Year: 2002 Publisher: Rosebank : Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Books,

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"'Safari' in Swahili means a journey, typically a long one. Theroux's itinerary is African, from Cairo to Cape Town - down the Nile, through Sudan and Ethiopia, to Kenya, Uganda and beyond to South Africa. Journeying by train, boat and cattle truck, he passes through some of the most beautiful - and often life-threatening - landscapes on earth. This is travel as discovery, but it is in part a sentimental journey. Almost forty years ago, Theroux first travelled in Africa as a teacher in the Malawi bush. Now he stops at his old school, sees former students and revisits his African friends"--Jacket.


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De geschiedenis van een vriendschap
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ISBN: 9045003635 9789045003634 Year: 1999 Publisher: Amsterdam [etc.] : Atlas,

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Beschrijving door de Amerikaanse schrijver (1941- ) van zijn dertigjarige, allengs problematischer wordende vriendschap met de Brits-Indiase schrijver V.S. Naipaul (1932- ).


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The great railway bazaar by train through Asia
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ISBN: 0345251911195 Year: 1976 Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books,

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The kingdom by the sea : a journey around Great Britain
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ISBN: 0395346452 Year: 1983 Publisher: Boston Houghton Mifflin

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The old Patagonian Express: by train through the Americas
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ISBN: 0140054936 9780140054934 Year: 1979 Publisher: Harmondsworth

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The Moronic inferno and other visits to America
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ISBN: 0140127194 Year: 1987 Publisher: Harmondsworth : Penguin Books,


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Het diepe Zuiden : vier seizoenen op tweebaanswegen
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ISBN: 9789045030517 Year: 2016 Publisher: Amsterdam Antwerpen Atlas Contact

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Fresh air fiend : travel writings, 1985-2000
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ISBN: 0547526342 0618126937 1299882994 Year: 2000 Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin,

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In this remarkable collection of essays and articles written over the last fifteen years, Paul Theroux demonstrates how the traveling life and the writing life are intimately connected. Not simply an escape from the mundane, travel has always been a creative act for Theroux. His journeys in remote hinterlands and crowded foreign capitals provide the necessary perspective to "become a stranger" in order to discover the self. Wonderfully broad in scope, thought, and feeling, Fresh Air Fiend touches down on all five continents and floats through most of the seas in between. From the crisp quiet of a solitary week spent in the snow-bound Maine woods, to the expectant chaos of Hong Kong on the eve of the Hand-over, to a small Pacific island where atomic bombs were detonated, Theroux is the perfect guide -- casually informative, keenly observant, wry, and entertaining. As Time has written, Theroux "serves as both the camera and the eye, and both the details and the illusions are developed with brilliance." He also reaches back into his past to tell of his earliest ventures into Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer, treats us to insightful readings of his favorite travel books, and reveals the fascinating stories behind some of his own. Fresh Air Fiend is a companion volume to Theroux's earlier, much beloved Sunrise with Seamonsters, but this is his first collection devoted completely to travel writing, for which the author of such classics as The Great Railway Bazaar and Riding the Iron Rooster is justly famous. Traveling with Theroux is a literary adventure of the first order, never a languid luxury cruise, always an insightful journey to the heart and soul of a place and its people. Fresh Air Fiend is the ultimate good read for anyone fascinated by travel in the wider world or curious about the life of one of our most passionate travelers.

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