Ghost Train to the Eastern Star - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ghost Train to the Eastern Star write by Paul Theroux. This book was released on 2009-08-25. Ghost Train to the Eastern Star available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. National Bestseller In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux recreates an epic journey he took thirty years ago, a giant loop by train (mostly) through Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. In short, he traverses all of Asia top to bottom, and end to end. In the three decades since he first travelled this route, Asia has undergone phenomenal change. The Soviet Union has collapsed, China has risen, India booms, Burma slowly smothers, and Vietnam prospers despite the havoc unleashed upon it the last time Theroux passed through. He witnesses all this and more in a 25,000 mile journey, travelling as the locals do, by train, car, bus, and foot. His odyssey takes him from Eastern Europe, still hungover from Communism, through tense but thriving Turkey, into the Caucasus, where Georgia limps back toward feudalism while its neighbour Azerbaijan revels in oil-driven capitalism. As he penetrates deeper into Asia’s heart, his encounters take on an otherworldly cast. The two chapters that follow show us Turkmenistan, a profoundly isolated society at the mercy of an almost comically egotistical dictator, and Uzbekistan, a ruthless authoritarian state. From there, he retraces his steps through India, Mayanmar, China, and Japan, providing his penetrating observations on the changes these countries have undergone. Brilliant, caustic, and totally addictive, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is Theroux at his very best.
The Great Railway Bazaar
The Great Railway Bazaar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Railway Bazaar write by Paul Theroux. This book was released on 2006-06-01. The Great Railway Bazaar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The acclaimed author recounts his epic journey across Europe and Asia in this international bestselling classic of travel literature: “Compulsive reading” (Graham Greene). In 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on a four-month journey by train from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. In The Great Railway Bazaar, he records in vivid detail and penetrating insight the many fascinating incidents, adventures, and encounters of his grand, intercontinental tour. Asia's fabled trains—the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-Siberian Express—are the stars of a journey that takes Theroux on a loop eastbound from London's Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, then back from Japan on the Trans-Siberian. Brimming with Theroux's signature humor and wry observations, this engrossing chronicle is essential reading for both the ardent adventurer and the armchair traveler.
Sunrise with Seamonsters
Sunrise with Seamonsters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sunrise with Seamonsters write by Paul Theroux. This book was released on 1986. Sunrise with Seamonsters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. " ... Collection of decidedly opinionated articles, essays, and ruminations, spanning two decades ..."--Page 4 of cover
The Last Train to Zona Verde
The Last Train to Zona Verde - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Train to Zona Verde write by Paul Theroux. This book was released on 2013. The Last Train to Zona Verde available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The world's most acclaimed travel writer journeys through western Africa from Cape Town to the Congo.
Riding the Iron Rooster
Riding the Iron Rooster - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Riding the Iron Rooster write by Paul Theroux. This book was released on 2006-12-08. Riding the Iron Rooster available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The acclaimed travel writer chronicles a year of train travel across China in a revealing travelogue that “gives the reader much to relish and think about” (Publishers Weekly). The author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey through China. The always irascible, infectiously curious author “is in top form as he describes the barren deserts of Mongolia and Xinjiang, the ice forests of Manchuria and the dry hills of Tibet. He captures their otherworldly, haunting appearances perfectly. He is also right on target when he talks about the ugliness of China's poorly planned, hastily built cities” (Mark Salzman, The New York Times). Theroux hops aboard a train as part of a tour group in London and sets out for China's border. He then spends a year traversing the country, where he pieces together a fascinating snapshot of a unique moment in history. From sweeping and desolate natural landscapes to the dense metropolises of Shanghai, Beijing, and Canton, Theroux offers an unforgettable portrait of a magnificent land and an extraordinary people.
