The "Old Patagonian Express" was the last train Paul Theroux took in his journey from Boston to Patagonia. This is the story of his journey, a journey of contrasts in people, in temperature, in scenery, in altitude, and in attitude.

The old patagonian express: by train through the americas

Retour en Patagonie - Une conversation

THE TAO OF TRAVEL

In Dark Star Safari the wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and enlightening journey, he endures danger, delay, and dismaying circumstances. Gauging the state of affairs, he talks to Africans, aid workers, missionaries, and tourists. What results is an insightful meditation on the history, politics, and beauty of Africa and its people, and "a vivid portrayal of the secret sweetness, the hidden vitality, and the long-patient hope that lies just beneath the surface" (Rocky Mountain News). In a new postscript, Theroux recounts the dramatic events of a return to Africa to visit Zimbabwe.

Safari noir: Du Caire au Cap a travers les terres

It was 1982, the summer of the Falkland Islands War, and the birth of the royal heir, Prince William--and the ideal time, Theroux found, to surprise the British into talking about themselves. The result is a candid, funny, perceptive, and opinionated travelogue of his journey and his findings.

Voyage excentrique et ferroviaire autour du Royaume-uni

Thirty years ago the author left London and travelled across Asia and back again by train. Now he makes the trip all over again. Through Eastern Europe, India and Asia to discover the changes that have swept the continents, and also to learn what an old man will make of a young man's journey. This book presents a chronicle of his travels.

Ghost train to the eastern star - on the tracks of 'the great railway bazaar'

Sir vidia s shadow

In the Washington Post Book World, Sven Birkerts called this exuberant novel "a complex and gripping work of invention and confession .

My Other Life

"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 against each other. Her favorite, Angela, died in childbirth; only Angela really understands her, she tells the others. The others include the officious lawyer, Fred; the uproarious professor, Floyd; a pair of inseparable sisters whose devotion to Mother has consumed their lives; and JP, the narrator, a successful writer whose work she disparages. As she lives well past the age of one hundred, her brood struggles with and among themselves to shed her viselike hold on them.                  Mother Land is a piercing portrait of how a parent's narcissism impacts a family. While the particulars of his tale are unique, Paul Theroux encapsulates with acute clarity and wisdom a circumstance that is familiar to millions of readers.   "Paul Theroux ladles a steaming cup of dysfunctional-family chowder in Mother Land." - Vanity Fair  "An engrossing, emotionally tangled and often merciless examination of family and self .

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