Thirty years ago the author left London and travelled across Asia and back again by train. His account of the journey - "The Great Railway Bazaar" - was a landmark book. Now he makes the trip all over
Tells of the author's journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston's subway, this work depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina's most
“[Hock] knows he is ensorcelled by exoticism, but he can’t help himself. And, as things go from bad to worse and the pages start to turn faster, neither can we. A.”—Entertainment Weekly When he was
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 di
Paul Theroux invites you to join him on the journey of a lifetime, in the grand romanttic tradition, by train across Euope, through the vast underbelly of Asia and in the heart of Russia, and then up
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 Afric
