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The Tao of Travel (Book)

Paul Theroux (Author)

A compendium of travel writing from a master traveller. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, it celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped the author, as a reader and a traveller.

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Last Train to Zona Verde (Book)

Paul Theroux (Author), Theroux Paul (Author)

Having travelled down the right-hand side of Africa in Dark Star Safari, the author sets out this time from Cape Town, heading northwards in a new direction, up the left-hand side, through South Africa and Namibia, to Botswana, then on into Angola, heading for the Congo, in [...]

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The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari (Book)

Paul Theroux (Author)

The world's most acclaimed travel writer journeys through western Africa fromCape Town to the Congo.

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The Lower River (Book)

Paul Theroux (Author)

A taut, tense, darkly suspenseful novel about a man who flees to Africa afterhis marriage falls apart, only to be caught up in a precarious situation in aseemingly benign village.

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The Lower River (Book)

Paul Theroux (Author)

Ellis Hock never believed he would ever return to Africa - to his isolated village where he was happiest. He runs an old-fashioned menswear store in a small town in Massachusetts but still dreams of his Eden in Africa, the four years he spent in Malawi with the Peace Corps, [...]

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The Lower River (Book)

Paul Theroux (Author)

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The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road (Book)

Paul Theroux (Author)

A philosophical guidebook and collection of insights celebrating the joy of travel, chosen by eminent travel writer Paul Theroux.

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The Lower River (Book)

Paul Theroux (Author)

Decades ago Massachusetts salesman Ellis Hock spent four years in Africa - and the continent has never left him. So when his wife walks out and his business goes belly up, Ellis turns back to the one place in which he briefly found happiness. Yet returning to the village of [...]

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The Last Train to Zona Verde (Book)

Paul Theroux (Author)

The world's most acclaimed travel writer takes us on one last African journey, from Cape Town to Angola

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The Lower River (Book)

Paul Theroux (Author)

Selbst während seiner besten Tagen in Medford, hatte Altman sich immer vorgestellt, dass er eines Tages nach Afrika, zum Lower River, zurückkehren würde. Die Zeit, die er als junger Mann in einem Dorf namens Malabo verbracht hatte, war die schönste seines Lebens. Jetzt, [...]

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My Secret History (Book)

Paul Theroux (Author)

'Parent saunters into the book aged fifteen, shouldering a .22 Mossberg rifle as earlier, more innocent American heroes used to tote a fishing pole. In his pocket is a paperback translation of Dante's "Inferno" ...He is a creature of naked and unquenchable ego, greedy for [...]

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My Other Life (Book)

Paul Theroux (Author)

A memoir which includes a collection of short stories and an assemblage of fables.

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The Collected Stories (Book)

Paul Theroux (Author)

A collection of stories that delve into the worlds of a spectrum of characters.

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Fresh-Air Fiend (Book)

Paul Theroux (Author)

Full of encounters and memorable scenes, fascinating and sometimes bizarre locations, and enlightening musings on themes as various as sexual attraction and the point of travel writing itself, this is a collection of shorter pieces.

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The Consul's File (Book)

Paul Theroux (Author)

Spencer Savage, a young American consul, is posted to Ayer Hitam, a small Malaysian town, in the 1970s. Told to close down this remote outpost in the sweltering jungle, he instead finds himself drawn to the many characters he meets among the Malays, Indians, Japanese, [...]

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