Fresh air fiend : travel writings, 1985-2000 / Paul Theroux
Material type: TextPublication details: Boston, Massachusetts : Houghton Mifflin Company , c2000Description: 466 p. : travel writings ; 21 cmISBN:- 0-618-12693-7
- 818.5403 THE
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Libro - Monografía | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. | 818.5403 THE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 010892 |
Includes bibliographical references
Paul Theroux demonstrates how the traveling life and the writing life are intimately connected. Not simply an escape from the mundane, travel has always been a creative act for Theroux. His journeys in remote hinterlands and crowded foreign capitals provide the necessary perspective to "become a stranger" in order to discover the self. Wonderfully broad in scope, thought, and feeling, Fresh Air Fiend touches down on all five continents and floats through most of the seas in between. From the crisp quiet of a solitary week spent in the snow-bound Maine woods, to the expectant chaos of Hong Kong on the eve of the Hand-over, to a small Pacific island where atomic bombs were detonated, Theroux is the perfect guide -- casually informative, keenly observant, wry, and entertaining.
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