Ghost Train to the Eastern Star 28,000 Miles in Search of the Railway Bazaar

Paul Theroux

eBook - 2020

The acclaimed author of The Great Railway Bazaar retraces his legendary journey through Europe and Asia in this "funny, informative and lyrical" travelogue (The Guardian, UK). Paul Theroux virtually invented the modern travel narrative by recounting his 25,000-mile journey by train through eastern Europe, central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. Three decades later, the world he recorded in The Great Railway Bazaar has undergone phenomenal change. The Soviet Union has collapsed and China has risen; India booms while Burma smothers under dictatorship; Vietnam flourishes in the aftermath of the havoc America was unleashing on it the last time Theroux passed through. Now Theroux returns to capture the texture..., sights, smells, and sounds of this new landscape. Theroux's odyssey takes him from eastern Europe, still hung-over from communism. He experiences a tense but thriving Turkey, and a Georgia limping back toward feudalism while its neighbor Azerbaijan...

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Published
Mariner Books
Language
English
Main Author
Paul Theroux
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Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Kindle Book
ASINB003JTHWJ6
Release Date6/11/2020
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780547348582
Release Date6/11/2020