Paul Theroux
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At the Hemisphere Institute, she was called Mopsy. At the Jasmine Escort Agency, and to most of the men they sent her to, she was Dr. Lauren Slaughter. She found the work similar in many respects; and when people, day or night, asked her what she did the rest of the time, she said simply, “Research.”
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Quintessential travel articles and thoughtful essays by the observant, witty, and skeptical travel writer and novelist. Part One: 1964-1978 includes:
Winter in Africa;
Leper Colony;
V.S. Naipaul;
Memories of Old Afghanistan;
The Night Ferry to Paris;
and A Circuit of Corsica
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The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia. Filled with evocative names of legendary train routes; the Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Hikari Super Express to Kyoto and the Trans-Siberian Express; it describes the many places, cultures, sights and sounds he experienced and the fascinating people he met. Here he overhears...