The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux

The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Therouxirst published in 1975, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans Siberian Express are the stars of a journey that takes him on a loop eastbound

surprising facts and breathtakingly beautiful images

I have left the grips of one king only to fall into the hands of another

Natsume Sōseki's Kusamakura follows its nameless young artist-narrator on a meandering walking tour of the mountains

but his clumsy concern fractures the twins’ relationship

contempt into consideration for others - the story of a man's own integrity winning through against all the odds

five years after an accord brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland

keen to discover themselves

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From his celebrated play

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The natural flow of this potent process into dhyana and samadhi is beautifully discussed bringing the teachings to a sublime conclusion

to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century