09-14-2024, 05:16 PM
epub | 8.85 MB | English| Isbn:9780547525150 | Author: Paul Theroux | Year: 2020
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Quote:First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains -- the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-Siberian Express -- are the stars of a journey that takes him on a loop eastbound from London's Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, then back from Japan on the Trans-Siberian. Brimming with Theroux's signature humor and wry observations, this engrossing chronicle is essential reading for both the ardent adventurer and the armchair traveler.Category:Travel, Transportation, Biography, Asia - Travel, Travel Essays & Descriptions, Railroads, Literary Biography, Travel - General & Miscellaneous, Asia - Travel Essays & Descriptions, American Literary Biography, Asia - Travel - General & Miscellaneous, Asia - Travel Essays & Descriptions - General & Miscellaneous, Railroads - General & Miscellaneous, Railroads - History, World Travelers/ Globetrotters - Travel Essays & Descriptions, 20th Century American Authors - Literary Biography, Theroux, Paul