Hardcover But, he experiences a lot, he gets into conversation with a lot of people without taking advantage of them, he's funny. ) This one sat on my shelf at home for several years, actually, and I almost didn't get to it again this year. Whatever. Sold by: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Hardcover I love reading about the trips and the stories but it's some unethical shit.I choose a Paul Theroux travel book when I expect to be short on reading time. Mass Market Paperback And somehow that works.Travel writing isn't easy. I'm at the last section of the book and I'm amazed that I've made it this far without giving up. Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Paul Theroux takes a grand railway adventure first across the United States and then south through Mexico, Central America, and across the Andes until he winds up on the meandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine. But this trip in and around the lands of the Pacific may be his boldest, most fascinating yet. ) All Formats
This title and over 1 million more available with , Start by marking “The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific” as Want to Read: I admire his ability to resist making himself look good in every book, but in this one in particular, he is vulnerable and open in his need to find comfort in the familiar, the interesting, the strange. What is he looking for, in this tough moment in his life? Audible Audiobook (
Cranky, complaining and mean-spirited, but vastly entertaining. Sold by: Amazon.com Services LLC Audible Audiobook This one sat on my shelf at home for several years, actually, and I almost didn't get to it again this year. , I think it's Theroux. Almost as if you can make your books work by sheer force of will and effort as opposed to any clear message. I said, Exactly, and told her why.”“Even in Africa, I had never seen such a profusion of stars as I saw on these clear nights on Pacific isles - not only big beaming planets and small single pinpricks... but also glittering clouds of them - the whole dome of the sky crowded with thick shapes formed from stars, overlaid with more shapes, a brilliant density, like a storm of light over a black depthless sea, made brighter still by twisting auroras composed of tiny star grains - points of light so fine and numerous they seemed like luminous vapor, the entire sky hung with veils of light like dazzling smoke... they made night in Oceania as vast and dramatic as day.” 136
He visits each of the island groups of the Pacific and provides his impressions of the people who inhabit them and their culture.A combination travelogue and personal reflection, Theroux provides us with his impressions as he travels and paddles his portable kayak from Australia to Hawaii. Sold by: Amazon.com Services LLC He navigates around sharks, warring tribes, head hunters, and new age Hawaiians.
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I have seen the Mosquito Coast film and most of his travel books are on my wishlist.
He pays attention to cultural moods and intricacies and often notices and brings to light the ever present absurdities. Buy now with 1-Click The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain Paul Theroux
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