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De oude Patagonië-Express
De oude Patagonië-Expres is het fraaie verslag van een treinreis dwars door het hele Amerikaanse continent. Theroux stapt in Boston op de metro, om uiteindelijk uit de trein te stappen op het zuidelijkste puntje van Zuid-Amerika. Hij komt door adembenemende gebergten en dorre woestijnlandschappen, per luxetrein en per gammele roestbak, altijd gewapend met zijn scherpe pen, waarmee hij zijn lotgevallen en gesprekken onderweg vastlegt.
€ 24,99 -
Laatste trein naar Zona Verde
mijn ultieme Afrikaanse safari`Ik was weer gelukkig, terug in Afrika, rijk van het licht, schrijft Theroux wanneer hij begint aan een nieuwe reis: van Kaapstad naar Angola, dwars door het continent waar hij zoveel van houdt. Hij kwam voor het eerst in Afrika als 22 jarige vrijwilliger bij het Vredeskorps. Nu keert hij terug, ditmaal om het minder betreden westelijk Afrika te verkennen, en zichzelf. Hij reist door de Kaapprovincie van Zuid Afrika naar Namibië, waar hij een oude droom verwezenlijkt: de San (Bosjesmannen) te bezoeken. Hij onderneemt een adem benemende olifantensafari in Botswana en belandt in Angola, bijna op de grens met Congo. Na meer dan 4000 kilometer door de bush beëindigt hij zijn reis eerder dan hij van plan was, een beslissing waarover Theroux vertelt met een typerende, driftige eerlijkheid.
€ 24,99 -
De grote spoorwegcarrousel
per trein door AziëPaul Theroux reist vier maanden per trein door Azië. Hij doorkruist onder meer Turkije, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Birma, Maleisië, Zuid-Vietnam en de Sovjet-Unie en neemt de ultrasnelle Japanse treinen, de Oriënt-Express en de Transsiberië-Express. In zijn aanstekelijke stijl en met een scherp oog voor detail beschrijft Theroux de plaatsen en de mensen die hij onderweg tegenkomt - en daarbij spaart hij ook zichzelf niet. De grote spoorwegcarrousel verscheen voor het eerst in 1975 en is een moderne klassieker onder de reisboeken.
€ 23,99 -
My Other Life
My Other Life is a compelling collection of short memoirs that blur the lines between biography and fiction as award-winning writer Paul Theroux imagines what his life would have been like had he made different choices. A writer's epic account of another life of other choices - of turning fact into extraordinary fiction...'A memoir; a collection of short stories; an assemblage of fables; an anthology of Theroux: a book in which he is everywhere present as himself and as someone other...Endlessly inventive beguiling provocative and insidiously readable' Sunday Telegraph'Evocative painstaking comic even tender brilliant. Follows the outline of Theroux's life - teaching in Africa and Singapore prosperity and marriage in rain-blackened London catastrophe then flight to the Pacific's sunnier shores - each chapter is plotted as a dramatic confrontation' Guardian'A great pleasure and a bit of a tease. Theroux is fluent witty and almost faultlessly able to deliver a satisfying story' Melvyn Bragg Literary ReviewAmerican travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels and collected short stories The Collected Stories My Secret History The Lower River The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro A Dead Hand Millroy the Magician The Elephanta Suite Saint Jack The Consul's File The Family Arsenal The Mosquito Coast and his works of non-fiction including the iconic The Great Railway Bazaar are available from Penguin
€ 25,40 -
True North
Acclaimed, bestselling author and travel writer Paul Theroux turns his gaze to Canada in a sweeping, personal journey. For more than half a century, Paul Theroux has traveled the globe and chronicled its far corners with curiosity, wit, and an unflinching eye. With True North, his twelfth travel book, he turns that eye to a country that has long been his quiet neighbor: Canada. What begins as the completion of a North American road trip trilogy becomes something more personal. Theroux traces his own ancestral connection to Quebec, where his forebear Antoine Theroux arrived in the 17th century. Theroux meets his Quebcois friends and relations, then travels more widely through remote villages, multicultural cities, and sweeping landscapes that have defined modern Canada. Along the way, he speaks with farmers, refugees, writers like John Irving and Michael Ondaatje, and Indigenous leaders such as Tanya Talaga, listening as Canadians reckon with identity, belonging, and patriotism, often in response to the jabs and provocations of their southern neighbor. From snowbound Ottawa at the height of political protests to the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, from Toronto's "ethno-burbs" to Vancouver's Pacific gateway, True North is a panoramic portrait of a vast country both familiar and elusive. It is also a meditation on kinship, migration, and the resilience of a people shaped by history, geography, and challenging weather. With the empathy of a companion and the sharpness of a cultural critic, Theroux delivers a timely, vivid travel narrative that reveals Canada as never before—diverse, unsettled, and alive with stories.
€ 30,50 -
True North
Canada - 'The true north strong and free' in the words of its national anthem - is the subject of this exhilarating new travel book from Paul Theroux: both a journey into the past and a cross-country road trip in the present, at a pivotal point in Canada's history.A vastly diverse and geographically scattered nation of forty million people, Canada is now threatened with annexation as the 51st state by the US President, beyond the longest undefended border in the world. This threat has had the effect of unifying the nation, inspiring patriotism, and encouraging the normally laconic Canadians to be forthcoming, ideal for a traveller with a gift for listening.For Theroux, this journey is also personal: his ancestor Antoine Theroux left Gascony in 1693 to become a pioneer in Nouvelle France and to settle in the small village of Yamaska, where many Therouxs still live and thrive. He recounts the riveting story of Antoine, illuminating the deeper, and often darker, history of Canada, before hitting the road from Yamaska, to explore the length and breadth of the country.From the farthest east in Newfoundland to the west in Vancouver, Theroux travels the highways linking Quebec, Montreal, Toronto and the huge cities of the prairies - an archipelago of urban islands, surrounded by vast, often pristine landscapes. Along the way he meets farmers and fishermen, writers and activists, new immigrants and old timers - each a vital part of this True North, each hoping for it to remain strong and free.With his remarkable gift for description and narrative, and his zest for the open road, Paul Theroux remains the most compelling, searching and evocative of travel writers.
€ 21,50 -
True North
Canada - 'The true north strong and free' in the words of its national anthem - is the subject of this exhilarating new travel book from Paul Theroux: both a journey into the past and a cross-country road trip in the present, at a pivotal point in Canada's history.A vastly diverse and geographically scattered nation of forty million people, Canada is now threatened with annexation as the 51st state by the US President, beyond the longest undefended border in the world. This threat has had the effect of unifying the nation, inspiring patriotism, and encouraging the normally laconic Canadians to be forthcoming, ideal for a traveller with a gift for listening.For Theroux, this journey is also personal: his ancestor Antoine Theroux left Gascony in 1693 to become a pioneer in Nouvelle France and to settle in the small village of Yamaska, where many Therouxs still live and thrive. He recounts the riveting story of Antoine, illuminating the deeper, and often darker, history of Canada, before hitting the road from Yamaska, to explore the length and breadth of the country.From the farthest east in Newfoundland to the west in Vancouver, Theroux travels the highways linking Quebec, Montreal, Toronto and the huge cities of the prairies - an archipelago of urban islands, surrounded by vast, often pristine landscapes. Along the way he meets farmers and fishermen, writers and activists, new immigrants and old timers - each a vital part of this True North, each hoping for it to remain strong and free.With his remarkable gift for description and narrative, and his zest for the open road, Paul Theroux remains the most compelling, searching and evocative of travel writers.
€ 27,50 -
Crazy for You
Money, women, power, and rebelling against the golden years. These are some of the perilous and alluring patterns that weave their way through Crazy for You. In this double feature of love and obsession, two short stories by the acclaimed writer Paul Theroux are adapted by veteran cartoonist Steve Lafler. "Minor Watt" is a high society satire lampooning the perverse relationship between art and the art market -- and what happens when the joy of owning is outstripped by the thrill of destroying. "Siamese Nights" is a tale of infidelity, infatuation, and exoticism, blending into an intoxicating, midlife crisis siren song. Little choices and self-betrayals build until a quiet leitmotif rolls into a shattering crescendo. Lafler's bold and expressive style effortlessly captures the pulp exuberance adorning Theroux's stories and the profound vulnerability underlying his characters. Crazy for You will stop you in your tracks right before it bowls you over.
€ 24,00 -
The Stranger at the Palazzo dOro
Award-winning writer Paul Theroux tells four exhilarating stories of desire in which nothing is as it seems in The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro. A young American walks into Sicily's Palazzo d'Oro during the '60s. Penniless but swaggering with youth and burgeoning artistic talent he accepts a proposition to become the companion to a beautiful and beguiling aristocrat. Their affair- formal and restrained by day torrid and passionate by night - leads him to a place where nothing not even his lover is what it seems. This novella and three other tales explore the underbelly of sexual desire and together make up one of Paul Theroux's most compelling works yet. 'Theroux is a distinctive and daring writer. . . he is at his best when shadowing the fugitive feelings which are the outriders of desire' Independent'A decadent engrossing collection. Whether evoking the bored sophistication of European aristocrats or the compulsive smuttiness of American teenagers Theroux writes with an economy and grace which is hard to resist' Mail on Sunday'Theroux's eye for detail is seductive and imagination compelling' Irish IndependentAmerican travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels and collected short stories My Other Life The Collected Stories My Secret History The Lower River A Dead Hand Millroy the Magician The Elephanta Suite Saint Jack The Consul's File The Family Arsenal The Mosquito Coast and his works of non-fiction including the iconic The Great Railway Bazaar are available from Penguin.
€ 22,30 -
Burma Sahib
Die faszinierende Lebensgeschichte des jungen George Orwell: Die Verwandlung des Eton-Absolventen und Kolonialpolizisten im Burma der 1920er Jahre in den schärfsten Kritiker unserer Zeit. Erzählt von Paul Theroux, Wegbegleiter von Bruce Chatwin und einer der großen Chronisten der Gegenwart. 'Ein phänomenales Porträt des jungen George Orwell und eine schonungslose Darstellung des britischen Kolonialismus.' Publishers Weekly'Es gibt einen kurzen Zeitraum im Leben eines jeden Menschen, in dem sein Charakter für immer festgeschrieben wird.' George Orwell Im Alter von neunzehn Jahren schifft sich der Eton-Absolvent Eric Blair im Herbst 1922 nach Rangun ein. In Burma soll er als Beamter der britischen Kolonialpolizei ausgebildet werden. Doch schon kurz nach seiner Ankunft kommen dem hochgewachsenen, scheuen jungen Mann Zweifel an seiner bevorstehenden Aufgabe. Er, der feingeistige Offiziersanwärter, verabscheut die Überheblichkeit und skrupellose Willkür der Briten, ihren unverhohlenen Rassismus. Blair wird unweigerlich zum Außenseiter, macht sich damit zum Gespött seiner Landsleute. Als er ins schwülheiße Schwemmland des Irawadi-Deltas versetzt wird, um Nachforschungen über den Tod eines Mannes anzustellen, überwältigt ihn das Gefühl, für seine Aufgabe als Kolonialpolizist nicht geschaffen zu sein. Und zugleich erschreckt und beschämt ihn, wie er beginnt, sich in die von ihm erwartete Rolle zu fügen. Die Erkenntnis, am Ende selbst zu den Unterdrückern zu gehören, schockiert ihn. Und er trifft eine folgenreiche Entscheidung. Mitreißend taucht der große amerikanische Schriftsteller Paul Theroux ein in die Kolonialwelt Burmas. Und führt vor Augen, wie aktuell Orwells Bedenken über Kolonialismus und autoritäre Macht bis heute bleiben.Ausstattung: + 1 s/w Karte
€ 22,00 -
The Best American Travel Writing
€ 22,80 -
My Other Life
€ 21,40