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Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux
$34.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
From renowned author Paul Theroux comes the fascinating, atmospheric tale of George Orwell's years in Burma. 'There is a short period in everyone's life when his character is fixed forever.' - George Orwell Before George Orwell was Orwell - the pen name he took on becoming a writer - he was Eric Blair ...Show more
Dark Star Safari - Overland From Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: very good
'Safari' in Swahili means a journey, typically a long one. In Dark Star Safari, Theroux's itinerary is African, from Cairo to Cape Town - down the Nile, through Sadan and Ethiopia, to Kenya, Uganda and beyond to South Africa. Journeying by train, boat and cattle truck, he passes through some of the most ...Show more
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star : On the tracks of The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: very good
In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Paul Theroux retraces the steps he took thirty years ago in the best-selling and hugely acclaimed The Great Railway Bazaar. From the Eurostar in London, he once again sets out on a journey to the East, travelling overland through Eastern Europe, India and Asia. Infuse ...Show more
Mother Land by Paul Theroux
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Everyone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman- pious, hard-working, frugal. Everyone except her husband and seven children. To them she is a selfish and petty tyrant - endlessly comparing her many living children to the one who died in childbirth, keeping a vice-like hold on her offspring ...Show more
On The Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Road Trip by Paul Theroux
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Mexico
Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A forty-foot steel fence runs through its centre, separating the prosperous US side from the impoverished Mexican side. It is a fascinating site of tension, now more than ever, as the town fills with hopeful border crossers ...Show more
The Bad Angel Brothers by Paul Theroux
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A deliciously dark, atmospheric novel about family and brotherhood from one of America's most distinctive writers. There's sibling rivalry and then there's the relationship of brothers Cal and Frank Belanger, which takes fraternal antipathy to a whole new level. Enemies seemingly since childhood, the ...Show more
The Bad Angel Brothers by Paul Theroux
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A deliciously dark, atmospheric novel about family and brotherhood from one of America's most distinctive writers There's sibling rivalry and then there's the relationship of brothers Cal and Frank Belanger. Enemies since childhood, the small town of Littleford just isn't big enough to hold them both. S ...Show more
The Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: very good
Return to "The Great Railway Bazaar" in "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star" as Paul Theroux experiences the journey that launched his travel writing career for the second time. Thirty years ago Paul Theroux left London and travelled across Asia and back again by train. His account of the journey - "The Gr ...Show more
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia by Paul Theroux
$22.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: good
Presents the stories of the author's epic journey by rail through India and Asia. This book features The Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur and the Trans-Siberian Express. It describes the huge variety of places and people, foods, f ...Show more
The Happy Isles of Oceania : Paddling the Pacific by Paul Theroux
$28.00 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
In one of his most exotic and breathtaking journeys, the intrepid traveler Paul Theroux ventures to the South Pacific, exploring fifty-one islands by collapsible kayak. Beginning in New Zealand's rain forests and ultimately coming to shore thousands of miles away in Hawaii, Theroux paddles alone over is ...Show more
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas by Paul Theroux
$35.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: good
Features train journey down the length of North and South America. This book depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip, via pretty Central American towns and the ancient Incan city of Macchu Pichu.
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