BOOKS by Paul Theroux

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1	Pillars of Hercules more books like this by Paul Theroux add to wishlist Theroux narrates a year-long trek around the coast of the Mediterranean. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.58! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar more books like this by Paul Theroux add to wishlist Thirty years after his classic "The Great Railway Bazaar," Theroux revisits Eastern Europe, Central Asia, India, China, Japan, and Siberia. Wherever he goes, his omnivorous curiosity and unerring eye for detail never fail to inspire, enlighten, inform, and entertain. see all copies from $2.10! new only from $5.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Ali and Nino: A Love Story more books like this by Kurban Said, Jenia Graman (Translator), Paul Theroux (Afterword by) add to wishlist A mix of romance and wartime adventure set in Azerbaijan during World War I and the Russian Revolution, this novel is about a Tartar Muslim who marries a Georgian Christian, rebelling against his traditional male-chauvinist background. It was first published in German in 1937, and its authorship is in dispute: is it the work of Lev Nussimbaum (a.k ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.94! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Mosquito Coast more books like this by Paul Theroux add to wishlist Allie Fox hates America and everything about the 20th century, so he decides to take his wife and two sons to live a better and simpler life in the Honduran jungle. However, when he starts to go mad, life for his family becomes much more frightening than ever before. "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific more books like this by Paul Theroux add to wishlist Theroux's narrative of his travels to 51 Pacific islands. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.65! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown more books like this by Paul Theroux add to wishlist Noted travel writer Paul Theroux travels back to Africa, where 40 years earlier he began his writing career, and tours the entirety of this immense country. In its descriptions and observations about the people the author meets along the way, DARK STAR SAFARI provides some perspective on America, as viewed through the eyes of those whose lives are ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.98! \| SVS
7	The Elephanta Suite more books like this by Paul Theroux add to wishlist This startling, far-reaching book captures the tumult, ambition, hardship, and serenity that mark today's India. Theroux's portraits of people and places explode stereotypes to exhilarating effect. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Riding the Iron Rooster more books like this by Paul Theroux add to wishlist Theroux narrates an ambitious railroad journey beginning in London, continuing through Europe, Russia, and finally China. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.55! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Great Railway Bazaar more books like this by Paul Theroux add to wishlist Paul Theroux revolutionized travel writing with his 1975 book THE GREAT RAILWAY BAZAAR, a stirring and very personal account of his travels by railway from London to Tokyo and back. Choosing to go by train, alone, and with minimal gear, afforded the intrepid Theroux the opportunity of encountering a fascinating galaxy of fellow travelers (who ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.92! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Starlet: Photographs from the Hollywood Front Lines more books like this by Nancy Ellison (Photographer), Paul Theroux (Introduction by) add to wishlist Starlet: Photographs from the Hollywood Front Lines is an homage to the starlets who risked it all. Many became superstars-some may be recognized while others existed so ephemerally only these beautiful images and the dreams they represent remain. But, they dared and they risked everything. Striking, adventuresome, sexy, fresh, vulnerable, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
11 view cover	Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town more books like this by Paul Theroux add to wishlist Noted travel writer Paul Theroux travels back to Africa, where 40 years earlier he began his writing career, and tours the entirety of this immense country. In its descriptions and observations about the people the author meets along the way, DARK STAR SAFARI provides some perspective on America, as viewed through the eyes of those whose lives are ... see all copies from $3.36! new only from $12.55! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China more books like this by Paul Theroux add to wishlist If you want to understand China, take the train: as the Chinese do. The author decided to do just that - from the searing hot Gobi desert to the Western Xinjiang of the ice-bound cities of the Siberian border, along the South China Sea and to the edge of Tibet - and this book is an account of that year. Paul Theroux joined a tour that made its way ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia more books like this by Paul Theroux add to wishlist Fired by his childhood fascination with trains, Paul Theroux set out one day with the intention of boarding every train that chugged into view from Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, and to return via the Trans-Siberian Express. An odyssey of fun and adventure full of people, places and asides. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
14	The Imperial Way more books like this by Paul Theroux, Steve McCurry (Photographer) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.75! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Saint Jack more books like this by Paul Theroux add to wishlist At first Jack was the youngest drinker at the Bandung Club, but now at 53 he is almost a fixture at the bar, an institution. Expatriates like him begin to fear dying, alone and vulnerable, in an alien tropic. And Jack still dreams of success. How can he convert his dream into reality? see all copies from $1.99! new only from $59.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Old Patagonian Express more books like this by Paul Theroux add to wishlist Celebrated travel-writer Paul Theroux turns his pen on the Americas, describing the trip from Boston to Patagonia, from subway to steam engine. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas more books like this by Paul Theroux add to wishlist Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Theroux takes readers on a train journey from New England to Patagonia in southernmost Argentina. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.33! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain more books like this by Paul Theroux add to wishlist After eleven years living as an American in London, Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what Britain and the British are really like. It was 1982, the summer of the Falklands War and the royal baby, and the ideal time, he found, to surprise the British into talking about themselves. This is the result. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| first editions
19 view cover	Patagonia Revisited more books like this by Bruce Chatwin add to wishlist Since its discovery by Magellan in 1520, Patagonia was known as a country of black fogs and whirlwinds at the end of the inhabited world. It immediately lodged itself in the imagination as a metaphor for "the ultimate", the point beyond which one could not go. In this book, Chatwin and Theroux join forces to explores the instances in which the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $34.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Hotel Honolulu more books like this by Paul Theroux add to wishlist The narrator of Theroux's novel, a failed writer, manages a rundown hotel in Hawaii for a flamboyant character named Buddy Hamstra. The hotel--and in fact the entire city--seems to be people entirely by eccentrics, including a lawyer made melancholy by his wealth, a woman obsessed with her gay son, and--perhaps oddest of all--Leon Edel, the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21	Sailing Through China more books like this by Paul Theroux, Patrick Procktor add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Kingdom by the Sea more books like this by Paul Theroux add to wishlist After eleven years living as an American in London, Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what Britain and the British are really like. It was 1982, the summer of the Falklands War and the royal baby, and the ideal time, he found, to surprise the British into talking about themselves. The result is vivid and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.69! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings more books like this by Paul Theroux add to wishlist Fifteen years' worth of Paul Theroux's travel writings, including essays on the Maine woods, Hong Kong, a remote Pacific island, and other locations on five continents. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.75! \| first editions \| SVS
24	Riding Iron Rooster more books like this by Paul Theroux add to wishlist Theroux narrates an ambitious railroad journey beginning in London, continuing through Europe, Russia, and finally China. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25	Jungle lovers more books like this by Paul Theroux add to wishlist Theroux wrote JUNGLE LOVERS--a novel about a group of American and British expatriates--in 1971, part of the trilogy of books he wrote about Africa while he was living there. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions

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