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The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good
The Orient Express, the Golden Arrow of Kuala and the Trans-Siberian Express are just some of the trains steaming through Paul Theroux's epic rail journey from London across Europe through India and Asia. This was a journey of discovery made in the mid-seventies, a time before the West had embraced the ...Show more
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train through Asia by Paul Theroux
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"The Great Railway Bazaar" is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia. Filled with evocative names of legendary train routes - the Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Hikari Super Express to Kyoto and the ...Show more
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific by Paul Theroux
$29.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
This travel book follows Paul Theroux's explorations of the Pacific islands by collapsible kayak. Paddling through the islands, he also finds an unusual melting pot of cultures and contrasts.
The Last Train to Zona Verde: Overland from Cape Town to Angola by Paul Theroux
$49.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
The Last Train to Zona Verde is Paul Theroux's compelling account of his final African journey. Heading north from Cape Town, through South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Angola, Paul Theroux makes a final journey along Africa's western edge. The end of the line is the Congo but Theroux discovers that h ...Show more
The Last Train to Zona Verde: Overland from Cape Town to Angola by Paul Theroux
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel
'Happy again, back in the kingdom of light,' writes Paul Theroux as he sets out on a new journey though the continent he knows and loves best. Having travelled down the right-hand side of Africa in Dark Star Safari, he sets out this time from Cape Town, heading northwards in a new direction, up the left ...Show more
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train through the Americas by Paul Theroux
$29.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
Each time Paul Theroux takes a trip - "The Great Railway Bazaar, Riding the Iron Rooster" - the result is unmistakably Paul Theroux. And he has never been sharper than in "The Old Patagonian Express." Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chi ...Show more
The Tao of Travel by Paul Theroux
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
This is a compendium of travel writing from a master traveller Paul Theroux who celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveller. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, "The Tao of Tr ...Show more
Under the Wave at Waimea by Paul Theroux
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
Now in his sixties, big-wave surfer Joe Sharkey has passed his prime. The younger surfers around the breaks on the north shore of Oahu still call him the Shark, but his sponsors are looking elsewhere. When Joe accidentally hits and kills a man near Waimea while driving home from a bar after a night of ...Show more