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On The Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Road Trip by Paul Theroux
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Series: Mexico
Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A forty-foot steel fence runs through its centre, separating the prosperous US side from the impoverished Mexican side. It is a fascinating site of tension, now more than ever, as the town fills with hopeful border crossers ...Show more
Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China by Paul Theroux
$32.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
Paul Theroux, the author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey through China. He hops aboard as part of a tour group in London and sets out for China's border. He then spends a year traversi ...Show more
Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels and Discoveries 1964-1984 by Paul Theroux
$32.00 NZD
Category: General Travel
Award winning Paul Theroux has written many iconic shorter pieces of travel writing which have been collected together in the captivating "Sunrise with Seamonsters". "Sunrise with Seamonsters" is Paul Theroux's immensely entertaining collection of his shorter writings, ranging from sketches to critical ...Show more
The Bad Angel Brothers by Paul Theroux
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A deliciously dark, atmospheric novel about family and brotherhood from one of America's most distinctive writers. There's sibling rivalry and then there's the relationship of brothers Cal and Frank Belanger, which takes fraternal antipathy to a whole new level. Enemies seemingly since childhood, the ...Show more
The Collected Stories: World's End; Sinning with Annie; Jungle Bells; The Consul's File; The London Embassy; by Paul Theroux
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A collection of stories that delve into the worlds of a spectrum of characters. 'No one ever sees me write. One of the triumphs of fiction is that it is created in the dark. It leaves my house in a plain wrapper, with no bloodstains. Unlike me, my stories are whole and indestructible.' Theroux's canvas ...Show more
The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux
$55.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
This fabulous, far-reaching book breathtakingly captures the tumult, ambition, hardship and serenity that mark modern India. Theroux's characters risk venturing far beyond its well-worn paths to discover woe or truth or peace. A holidaying middle-aged couple veer heedlessly from idyll to chaos. A button ...Show more
The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Award-winning writer Paul Theroux removes the mystery and reveals the real India in his compelling novel "The Elephanta Suite". We in the West think we know India. But, as Paul Theroux reveals, we need to think again..."The Elephanta Suite" brilliantly explores the shifting stories of those who come to ...Show more
The Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Reading Level: very good
Return to "The Great Railway Bazaar" in "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star" as Paul Theroux experiences the journey that launched his travel writing career for the second time. Thirty years ago Paul Theroux left London and travelled across Asia and back again by train. His account of the journey - "The Gr ...Show more
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train through Asia by Paul Theroux
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"The Great Railway Bazaar" is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia. Filled with evocative names of legendary train routes - the Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Hikari Super Express to Kyoto and the ...Show more
The Happy Isles of Oceania : Paddling the Pacific by Paul Theroux
$30.00 NZD
Category: No Category
In one of his most exotic and breathtaking journeys, the intrepid traveler Paul Theroux ventures to the South Pacific, exploring fifty-one islands by collapsible kayak. Beginning in New Zealand's rain forests and ultimately coming to shore thousands of miles away in Hawaii, Theroux paddles alone over is ...Show more
The Lower River by Paul Theroux
$50.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A dream of Eden in Africa lies in ruins...Ellis Hock never believed he would ever return to Africa - to his isolated village where he was happiest. He runs an old-fashioned menswear store in a small town in Massachusetts but still dreams of his eden in Africa, the four years he spent in Malawi with the ...Show more
The Lower River by Paul Theroux
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Award-winning writer Paul Theroux draws upon personal experience of living in Malawi in his eye-opening novel, about one man's return to an Africa he no longer recognises, "The Lower River". Decades ago Massachusetts salesman Ellis Hock spent four years in Africa - and the continent has never left him. ...Show more