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"One of the most acclaimed travel writers of our time turns his unflinching eye on an American South too often overlooked. Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the ric...
Three intertwined novellas of Westerners transformed by their sojourns in India. A middle-aged couple on vacation veers heedlessly from idyll to chaos. A buttoned-up Boston lawyer finds succour in Mumbais reeking slums. ...
A collection of essays and articles written over a fifteen year period about the author's various experiences on five continents. In addition to the travel pieces, Theroux also includes his reminiscences, experiences as ...
"A dark and bitingly humorous collection of short stories from the "brilliantly evocative" (Time) Paul Theroux. A family watches in horror as their patriarch transforms into the singing, wise-cracking lead of an old-tim...
Allie Fox is fed up with an America that "buys junk, sells junk, eats junk." So with a mocking "Good bye, America! Have a nice day," the brilliant inventor (nine patents, six pending) leads his trusting wife and four ch...
"Legendary travel writer Paul Theroux fearlessly drives the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then goes deep into the hinterland, on the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind to...
Ellis Hock never believed that he would return to Africa. He runs an old-fashioned menswear store in a small town in Massachusetts but still dreams of his Eden, the four years he spent in Malawi with the Peace Corps, cut...