Theroux, Paul <br/><br/>
Fresh air fiend : travel writings, 1985-2000 
/ Paul Theroux 
 - Boston, Massachusetts  : Houghton Mifflin Company  , c2000 
 - 466 p.  : travel writings  ; 21 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-618-12693-7 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Theroux, Paul----Travel
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Voyages and travels----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>818.5403 THE