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Mar 30, 2021 · For five days, Paul Theroux, the famous US travel writer, dined on hard-boiled eggs, microwaved dal and wine. He had set out cross-country in a rented Jeep Compass on the day before Thanksgiving ...
Theroux, the author of about 50 novels and travel books in the last 45 years (including “The Great Railway Bazaar” in 1975 and “The Mosquito Coast” in 1981), has just published “On the Plain of Snakes: a Mexican Journey.””—. The Los Angeles Times — interview. “Legendary travel writer Paul Theroux joins us this week for a ...
A Crack in the Earth. In 1964 Paul Theroux was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nyasaland (as Malawi was called before independence), living on the edge of “a crack in the earth,” as he wrote in a letter to The Christian Science Monitor. That same year I was a PCV farther north, up in the highlands of Ethiopia, a few hours east of the Great Rift.
Quotes. “Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.”. — Paul Theroux. Hawai‘i is hot and cold volcanoes, clear skies, and open ocean. Like most Pacific islands it is all edge, no center, very shallow, very narrow, a set of green bowls turned upside down in the sea, the lips of the coastline surrounding the bulges of porous mountains.
Sep 27, 2014 · Paul Theroux is known for both his fiction and travel writing. His books include The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express. Steve McCurry/Courtesy of Houghton Mifflin ...
Apr 25, 2021 · As literary lives go, American travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux has lived a multitude. Raised on books about travel and exploring the globe, Theroux joined the Peace Corps after university, and was sent to Malawi and spent time in Uganda, Singapore and the UK before finally resettling in the United States.
Jan 18, 2023 · Paul Theroux is the author of “The Great Railway Bazaar,” “The Mosquito Coast” and “Riding the Iron Rooster,” among many other highly acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction. In 2015 ...
