Paul Theroux: 45 books
Riding the Rails with Paul Theroux
The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, and Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Riding the Rails with Paul Theroux
Three quintessential works from the legendary Paul Theroux are collected here for the first time.
Let the master take you by train through Asia in 1975’s The Great Railway Bazaar, then cross the Americas in 1979’s The Old Patagonian Express, and round...
Deep South
Four Seasons on Back Roads
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
“Theroux’s eye for landscape remains as sharp as ever . . . It’s Theroux’s remarkable gift for getting strangers to reveal themselves that makes going along for this ride worthwhile.” — New York Times Book Review
Paul Theroux has spent the past fifty years roaming the globe, describing...
by Paul Theroux
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 6, 2012
El libro ideal para preparar nuestros viajes: para disfrutarlos, comprenderlos y recordarlos.
No puedes transitar el camino hasta que tú mismo te conviertes en el camino.
Paul Theroux celebra cincuenta años de viajar por el mundo y reúne lo mejor de su obra y los pasajes más memorables...
The Last Train to Zona Verde
My Ultimate African Safari
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
"Theroux is at his best when he tells [people’s] stories, happy and sad . . . Theroux’s great mission had always been to transport us beyond that reading chair, to challenge himself—and thus, to challenge us." — Boston Globe
Paul Theroux’s best-selling Dark Star Safari chronicled...
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009
Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, the world’s most acclaimed travel writer re-creates his 25,000-mile journey through eastern Europe, central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia.
Half a lifetime ago, Paul Theroux...
To the Ends of the Earth
The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
“There are those who think that Paul Theroux is the finest travel writer working in English. This collection can only enhance that reputation.”—The New York Times Book Review
Author and travel writer Paul Theroux does what no one else can: he travels to the isolated, unusual, and fascinating...
Mr. Bones
Twenty Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
**“Suave and accomplished . . . [The stories] are unsettling, resistant to tidy denouement and faintly misanthropic.” — Washington Post
“Beneath the deceptive elegance of these stories, land mines lurk, and Theroux detonates them with gusto.” — O, the Oprah Magazine**
A family...
The Pillars of Hercules
A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
"DAZZLING."
--Time
"[THEROUX'S] WORK IS DISTINGUISHED BY A SPLENDID EYE FOR DETAIL AND THE TELLING GESTURE; a storyteller's sense of pacing and gift for granting closure to the most subtle progression of events; and the graceful use of language. . . . We are delighted, along with Theroux,...
On the Plain of Snakes
A Mexican Journey
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2019
Legendary travel writer Paul Theroux drives the entire length of the US–Mexico border, then goes deep into the hinterland, on the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind today’s brutal headlines.
Paul Theroux has spent his life crisscrossing the globe...
by Paul Theroux
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 1986
This collection of wide-ranging essays from the New York Times–bestselling travel writer is “a steamer trunk full of delights” (Chicago Sun-Times).
This collection of decidedly opinionated articles, essays, and ruminations, by the author of My Other Life and Kowloon Tong, transports the...
Figures in a Landscape
People and Places
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
"A portrait of an optimist with curiosity and affection for humanity in all its forms."**—**The New York Times Book Review
"Theroux is at the top of his game with his third collection of essays, a magisterial grouping of intimate remembrances, globe-trotting adventures, and...
Fresh Air Fiend
Travel Writings
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
Paul Theroux's first collection of essays and articles devoted entirely to travel writing, FRESH AIR FIEND touches down on five continents and floats through most seas in between to deliver a literary adventure of the first order, with the incomparable Paul Theroux as a guide. From the crisp quiet...
by Paul Theroux
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
“Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humor.” — Stephen King, New York Times Book Review
To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard work. To her husband and seven children, she is a selfish, petty tyrant. She excels at playing her offspring...
The Kingdom by the Sea
A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
This “interesting, insightful book” by the author of Deep South reveals “a side of Britain few visitors see” (The New York Times Book Review).
After eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of...