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Resultaten voor 'paul theroux'
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The Old Patagonian Express
Theroux contributes new prefaces to these new editions of his travel writing classics.
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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
Starting off on the Eurostar from London, Paul Theroux once again sets out on a railway journey through the East, travelling overland through Eastern Europe, and eventually reaching India and Asia. Infused with the changes that have shaped the exterior landscape and enriched with developments to his own perceptions and psychology, GHOST TRAIN TO THE EASTERN STAR is an absorbing and beautifully written follow-up to The Great Railway Bazaar. Full of life and impeccably evoked, this is Paul Theroux at his very best.
€ 14,00 -
True North
One of our greatest travel writers
€ 30,50 -
True North
On the Road in Canada€ 34,95 -
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 -
Burma Sahib
Remarkable . . . Theroux, of course, has a parallel reputation as one of our greatest travel writers, and the Burma that he conjures in these pages is wonderfully present in lush and dense prose
€ 14,95 -
The Old Patagonian Express
€ 19,50 -
Burma Sahib
'This novel is one of his finest in a long and redoubtable oeuvre' William Boyd, New York Times From renowned author Paul Theroux comes a fascinating, atmospheric novel inspired by George Orwell's years in Burma There is a short period in everyone's life when his character is fixed forever . . . ' George OrwellEric Blair stood out amongst his fellow police trainees in 1920s Burma. Nineteen years old, unusually tall, a diffident loner fresh from Eton, after five years spent in the narrow colonial world of the Raj - a decaying system steeped in overt racism and petty class-conflict - he would emerge as the George Orwell we know.Drawing on all his powers of observation and imagination, Paul Theroux brings Orwell's Burma years to radiant life, tracing the development of the young man's consciousness as he confronts the social, racial and class politics and the reality of Burma beyond. Through one writer, we come to understand another - and see how what Orwell called 'five boring years within the sound of bugles' were in fact the years that made him.One of John Irving's best books of the 21st century'Thoroughly enjoyable . . . [Theroux's] approach is like that of a skilful, subtle barrister who patiently lays out his evidence, gradually ensnaring the reader' Times Literary Supplement'Always a terrific teller of tales and conjurer of exotic locales' Sunday Times'The most gifted, most prodigal writer of his generation' Jonathan Raban
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The Silk Road: Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iran
A Travel CompanionJonathan Tucker is a former associate director of the Indian and Southeast Asian department at Spink and Son and has operated a gallery in St James's, London, with his wife Antonia Tozer since 2000. He is also a consultant for Bonhams and is a recognised authority in the field of Indian and Southeast Asian art, particularly in sculpture.Tucker lived in Asia for eleven years and spent many years exploring the ancient trade routes between China and Europe, travelling the entire length of the Silk Road with the exception of Iraq. He is the author of The Silk Road: Art and History (Philip Wilson Publishers), The Silk Road: Asia, Afghanistan and Iran (I.B. Tauris), and The Troublesome Priest: Harold Davidson, Rector of Stiffkey.
€ 23,50 -
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
€ 18,50 -
The Last Place on Earth
Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole, Revised and Updated€ 23,95 -
Where the Roads All End
Photography and Anthropology in the Kalahari€ 46,95