Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date: 2011-11-24
Book Size: 78.98 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Dark Star Safari

by Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Dark Star Safari book, Dark Star Safari is Paul Theroux's now classic account of a journey from Cairo to Cape Town. Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, Theroux visits some of the most beautiful landscapes on earth, and some of the most dangerous. It is a journey of discovery and of rediscovery -- of the unknown and the unexpected, but also of people and places he knew as a young and optimistic teacher forty years before. Safari in Swahili simply means "journey", and this is the ultimate safari. It is Theroux in his element -- a trip where chance encounter is everything, where departure and arrival times are an irrelevance, and where contentment can be found balancing on the top of a truck in the middle of nowhere. Praise for Paul Theroux: 'Theroux's work remains the standard by which other travel writing must be judged' Observer 'One needs energy to keep up with the extraordinary, productive restlessness of Paul Theroux ... [He is] the most gifted, most prodigal writer of his generation'Jonathan Raban 'Always a terrific teller of tales and conjurer of exotic locales, he writes lean prose that lopes along at a compelling pace'Sunday Times Paul Theroux's books include Dark Star Safari, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Riding the Iron Rooster, The Great Railway Bazaar, The Elephanta Suite, A Dead Hand, The Tao of Travel and The Lower River. The Mosquito Coast and Dr Slaughter have both been made into successful films. Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands.

Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher:
Release Date: 2010
Book Size: 15.59 MB
Book Format: PDF
Category : Travel
Languages : it
Pages : 521
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Dark Star Safari Dal Cairo A Citt Del Capo Via Terra

by Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari Dal Cairo A Citt Del Capo Via Terra Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Dark Star Safari Dal Cairo A Citt Del Capo Via Terra book,

Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date: 2013
Book Size: 44.76 MB
Book Format: PDF
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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The Last Train To Zona Verde

by Paul Theroux, The Last Train To Zona Verde Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Last Train To Zona Verde book, An acclaimed travel writer and novelist describes his journey across Africa, from Cape Town to Cape Province and into Namibia, riding elephants, meeting Bushmen and discussing the changes that have taken place since his first visit 50 years ago.

Author: الطيب صالح
Publisher:
Release Date: 1999
Book Size: 19.73 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub
Category :
Languages : ar
Pages : 200
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Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date: 2011-05-19
Book Size: 37.19 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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The Tao Of Travel

by Paul Theroux, The Tao Of Travel Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Tao Of Travel book, Paul Theroux 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 traveler. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel enumerates “The Contents of Some Travelers’ Bags” and exposes “Writers Who Wrote about Places They Never Visited”; tracks extreme journeys in “Travel as an Ordeal” and highlights some of “Travelers’ Favorite Places.” Excerpts from the best of Theroux’s own work are interspersed with selections from travelers both familiar and unexpected: Vladimir Nabokov J.R.R. Tolkien Samuel Johnson Eudora WeltyEvelyn Waugh Isak Dinesen Charles Dickens James Baldwin Henry David Thoreau Pico Iyer Mark Twain Anton Chekhov Bruce Chatwin John McPheeFreya Stark Peter Matthiessen Graham Greene Ernest Hemingway The Tao of Travel is a unique tribute to the pleasures and pains of travel in its golden age.

Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date: 2014-02-11
Book Size: 38.33 MB
Book Format: PDF
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Sir Vidia S Shadow

by Paul Theroux, Sir Vidia S Shadow Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Sir Vidia S Shadow book, This heartfelt and revealing account of Paul Theroux's thirty-year friendship with the legendary V. S. Naipaul is an intimate record of a literary mentorship that traces the growth of both writers' careers and explores the unique effect each had on the other. Built around exotic landscapes, anecdotes that are revealing, humorous, and melancholy, and three decades of mutual history, this is a personal account of how one develops as a writer and how a friendship waxes and wanes between two men who have set themselves on the perilous journey of a writing life.

Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date: 2012-03-29
Book Size: 63.28 MB
Book Format: PDF
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Ghost Train To The Eastern Star

by Paul Theroux, Ghost Train To The Eastern Star Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Ghost Train To The Eastern Star book, Paul Theroux's Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is a journey from London to Asia by train. Winner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020 Thirty years ago Paul Theroux left London and travelled across Asia and back again by train. His account of the journey - The Great Railway Bazaar - was a landmark book and made his name as the foremost travel writer of his generation. Now Theroux makes the trip all over again. Through Eastern Europe, India and Asia to discover the changes that have swept the continents, and also to learn what an old man will make of a young man's journey. Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is a brilliant chronicle of change and an exploration of how travel is 'the saddest of pleasures'. 'A dazzler, giving us the highs and lows of his journey and tenderness and acerbic humour . . . fellow-travelling weirdoes, amateur taxi drivers, bar-girls and long-suffering locals are brought vividly to life' Spectator 'Fans of Theroux are not likely to be disappointed. Theroux has great descriptive skill . . . the world is slightly less unknown by virtue of reading the book' Sunday Telegraph 'Relaxed, curious, confident, surprisingly tender. Theroux's writing has an immediate, vivid and cursory quality that gives it a collective strength' Sunday Times 'A brilliant eye, readable and vivid. Theroux has still got it' Observer 'Fascinating, a joy to read' Tatler Paul Theroux's books include Dark Star Safari, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Riding the Iron Rooster, The Great Railway Bazaar, The Elephanta Suite, A Dead Hand, The Tao of Travel and The Lower River. The Mosquito Coast and Dr Slaughter have both been made into successful films. Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands.

Author: Michael Shapiro
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Release Date: 2009-05-01
Book Size: 39.13 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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A Sense Of Place

by Michael Shapiro, A Sense Of Place Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download A Sense Of Place book, In A Sense of Place, journalist/travel writer Michael Shapiro goes on a pilgrimage to visit the world's great travel writers on their home turf to get their views on their careers, the writer's craft, and most importantly, why they chose to live where they do and what that place means to them. The book chronicles a young writer’s conversations with his heroes, writers he's read for years who inspired him both to pack his bags to travel and to pick up a pen and write. Michael skillfully coaxes a collective portrait through his interviews, allowing the authors to speak intimately about the writer's life, and how place influences their work and perceptions. In each chapter Michael sets the scene by describing the writer's surroundings, placing the reader squarely in the locale, whether it be Simon Winchester's Massachusetts, Redmond O'Hanlon's London, or Frances Mayes's Tuscany. He then lets the writer speak about life and the world, and through quiet probing draws out fascinating commentary from these remarkable people. For Michael it’s a dream come true, to meet his mentors; for readers, it's an engaging window onto the twin landscapes of great travel writers and the world in which they live.

Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Eamon Dolan Books
Release Date: 2019
Book Size: 11.75 MB
Book Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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On The Plain Of Snakes

by Paul Theroux, On The Plain Of Snakes Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download On The Plain Of Snakes book, Legendary travel writer Paul Theroux drives the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then goes deep into the hinterland, on the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind today's brutal headlines. Paul Theroux has spent his life crisscrossing the globe in search of the histories and peoples that give life to the places they call home. Now, as immigration debates boil around the world, Theroux has set out to explore a country key to understanding our current discourse: Mexico. Just south of the Arizona border, in the desert region of Sonora, he finds a place brimming with vitality, yet visibly marked by both the US Border Patrol looming to the north and mounting discord from within. With the same humanizing sensibility he employed in Deep South, Theroux stops to talk with residents, visits Zapotec mill workers in the highlands, and attends a Zapatista party meeting, communing with people of all stripes who remain south of the border even as their families brave the journey north. From the writer praised for his "curiosity and affection for humanity in all its forms" (New York Times Book Review), On the Plain of Snakes is an exploration of a region in conflict.

Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date: 1986
Book Size: 73.93 MB
Book Format: PDF
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Sunrise With Seamonsters

by Paul Theroux, Sunrise With Seamonsters Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Sunrise With Seamonsters book, This book brings together a variety of experiences and adventures from the travels of the best-selling author to such places as Corsica, Burma, Cape Cod, East Africa, Afghanistan, a leper colony, and the New York subways

Author: A. A. Milne
Publisher:
Release Date: 2017-10-21
Book Size: 71.67 MB
Book Format: PDF, Kindle
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Winnie The Pooh In Arabic A Translation Of A A Milne S Winnie The Pooh Into Arabic

by A. A. Milne, Winnie The Pooh In Arabic A Translation Of A A Milne S Winnie The Pooh Into Arabic Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Winnie The Pooh In Arabic A Translation Of A A Milne S Winnie The Pooh Into Arabic book, Winnie-the-Pooh is the most popular children's book in the world. This is the first known translation of Winnie-the-Pooh into Arabic. Arabic is a language spoken by 450 million people. It is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.

Author: Sihle Khumalo
Publisher: Random House Struik
Release Date: 2007
Book Size: 46.44 MB
Book Format: PDF
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 223
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Dark Continent My Black Arse

by Sihle Khumalo, Dark Continent My Black Arse Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Dark Continent My Black Arse book, A hilarious, epic and insightful account of a black South African's journey across the continent by public transport ...