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Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo - the hard way. Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, he visits some of the beautiful and dangerous landscapes on earth. This book takes us on a journey of discovery and of rediscovery.

The "Old Patagonian Express" tells of Paul Theroux's train journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston's subway, he depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip, via pretty Central American towns and the ancient Incan city of Macchu Pichu. Shivering and sweating by turns as the temperature and altitude rise and plummet, he describes the people he encountered - thrown in with the tedious, and unavoidable, Mr Thornberry in Limon and reading to the legendary blind writer, Jorge Luis Borges, in Buenos Aires. Witty, sharply observed and beautifully written, this is a richly evocative account of travelling to 'the end of the line'.

The Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur and the Trans-Siberian Express - only a few of the evocative names that fill this, the story of Paul Theroux's epic journey by rail through India and Asia. A journey on which he encounters a huge variety of places and people, food, faiths and cultures, and which has at its heart an enduring fascination with trains and railways.

"Suave and accomplished . . . [The stories] are unsettling, resistant to tidy denouement and faintly misanthropic." -- "Washington Post" "Beneath the deceptive elegance of these stories, land mines lurk, and Theroux detonates them with gusto." -- "O, the Oprah Magazine" A family watches their patriarch transform into the singing, wisecracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. An art collector publicly destroys his most valuable pieces. Two boys stand by as their father wages war on the raccoons living under their house. In this new collection, acclaimed author Paul Theroux shows us humanity possessed, consumed by compulsive desire, always with his carefully honed eye for detail and the subtle idiosyncrasies that bring his characters to life. Searing, dark, and sure to unsettle, "Mr. Bones" is a stunning display of Theroux's "fluent, faintly sinister powers of vision and imagination" ("The New Yorker"). "Fans of Theroux's fiction will be pleased to observe, in the twenty stories collected in "Mr. Bones, " clear evidence of how little he has mellowed over time . . . "Mr. Bones" is a series of characteristically dark and sharply focused snapshots from the world that Paul Theroux has observed--and invented." -- Francine Prose, "New York Times Book Review"

The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search for utopia from bestseller Paul Theroux. Published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured, messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness. "Stunning...exciting, intelligent, meticulously realised, artful." (Victoria Glendinning, Sunday Times). "An epic of paranoid obsession that swirls the reader headlong to deposit him on a black mudbank of horror." (Christopher Wordsworth, Guardian). "Magnificently stimulating and exciting." (Anthony Burgess).

Mr Bones is a sparkling and darkly humorous collection of short stories by bestselling novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux.A family watches, horrified, as their patriarch transforms into the wise-cracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. An art collector gleefully destroys his most valuable pieces. A young artist devotes himself to a wealthy, malicious gossip, knowing that it''s just a matter of time before she turns on him.In this new collection of short stories, Paul Theroux explores the tenuous leadership of the elite and the surprising revenge of the overlooked. He shows us humanity possessed, consumed by its own desires, always with his carefully honed eye and the subtle idiosyncrasies that bring his characters to life.

Contemporary / American English (Available May 2008) Allie Fox hates the United States and he hates the twentieth century. He takes his wife and children to the jungle in Honduras to find a new, simpler way of living. But things go wrong, and their lives become much worse and more frightening than anything back home.

Starting off on the Eurostar from London, Paul Theroux once again sets out on a railway journey through the East, travelling overland through Eastern Europe, and eventually reaching India and Asia. Infused with the changes that have shaped the exterior landscape and enriched with developments to his own perceptions and psychology, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is an absorbing and beautifully written follow-up to The Great Railway Bazaar. Full of life and impeccably evoked, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is Paul Theroux at his very best.

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 traveller. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel enumerates The Contents of Some Travellers Bags and exposes Writers Who Wrote About Places They Never Visited; tracks extreme journeys in Travel As An Ordeal and highlights some of Travellers Favourite Places. Excerpts from the best of Therouxs own work are interspersed with selections from travellers both familiar and unexpected, including Vladimir Nabokov, Henry David Thoreau, Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway and more. The Tao of Travel is a unique tribute to the pleasures and pains of travel in its golden age.

Jerry Delfont is a travel writer with writer''s block. When he receives a letter from an American philanthropist with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son''s, he is intrigued. Who is the dead boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel room? How did he die? And why?

A rich feast of travel writing, literary essays and fascinating interviews from Sunday Times bestselling travel author Paul Theroux''''Wonderful... Evidence of both the breadth of Theroux''''s interests and his skill in bringing them to life'''' Sunday Times CultureDrawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons (Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth Taylor, Robin Williams) to intimate personal remembrances; from thrilling adventures in Africa to literary writings from Theroux''''s rich and expansive personal reading. Collectively these pieces offer a fascinating portrait of the author himself, his extraordinary life, restless and ever-curious mind.''''Theroux''''s work remains the standard by which other travel writing must be judged'''' Observer''''The world''''s most perceptive travel writer'''' Daily Mail

Cuando Jack Flowers, Alias Jack Fiori, se dejó caer por Singapur, no tardó en aprenderlo todo acerca de puertos y gentes que viven en los confines del mundo, como en aquella península al sur de Indochina y en aquellos buenos tiempos en que sus burdeles, casas de masaje y espectaculos eran el centro de diversion de toda Asia. A veces marinero, otras abastecedor de barcos, otras simplemente golfo y otras aºn alcahuete, honesto y generoso, Jack podia ofrecer “cualquier cosa” a los turistas y jactarse de no defraudarlos jamas. Habia sido el mas joven bebedor del Bandung Club, pero ahora, ya cincuenton, es toda una institucion en la ciudad. Mientras otros naufragos de la vida como el empiezan a temer una muerte sordida en aquella torrida isla tropical, Jack sigue esperando la realizacion del “perfecto sueño magico” y, para ello, convierte la fantasia en realidad cotidiana, lejos de aquel puerto roñoso, lleno de cucarachas y tan cercano a esa guerra infame que lo corroe todo…

India: un país donde muchas personas pueden perder, e incluso para encontrar un país en sí. Los personajes de Paul Therouxs nuevo libro impresionante experiencia, y descubra un moderno, ambicioso y caótica India. Una fresca, convincente y, a menudo, concepto inspirador de la India Otra magnífica, de gran alcance bestselling libro de la autora!

When Jerry Delfont, a travel writer with writers block, receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs Merrill Unger, with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her sons, he is sufficiently intrigued to pursue the story. Who is the dead boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel room, how and why did he die _ and will this writer, whom Mrs Unger claims to admire, find out what really happened?