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On the Plain of Snakes - A Mexican Journey by Paul Theroux
67.99 NZD
Category: Travel
Legendary travel writer Paul Theroux 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 today's brutal headlines. Paul Theroux has spent his life crisscrossing the globe in search of the ...Show more
On the Plain of Snakes - A Mexican Road Trip by Paul Theroux
26.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO TRAVEL WRITING 2020 The master of contemporary travel writing, Paul Theroux, immerses himself in the beautiful and troubled heart of modern Mexico Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A forty- ...Show more
Pocket Penguins : Two Stars by Paul Theroux
4.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins S.
Penguin has happily been Theroux's companion both in his fictional and non-fictional forays, and in Two Stars he explores the worls of celebrity surrounding two icons: Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe.
Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China by Paul Theroux
26.95 NZD
32.00 (15% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Paul Theroux, the author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey through China. He hops aboard as part of a tour group in London and sets out for China's border. He then spends a year traversi ...Show more
Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels and Discoveries 1964-1984 by Paul Theroux
32.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Award winning Paul Theroux has written many iconic shorter pieces of travel writing which have been collected together in the captivating "Sunrise with Seamonsters". "Sunrise with Seamonsters" is Paul Theroux's immensely entertaining collection of his shorter writings, ranging from sketches to critical ...Show more
The Bad Angel Brothers by Paul Theroux
37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A deliciously dark, atmospheric novel about family and brotherhood from one of America's most distinctive writers. There's sibling rivalry and then there's the relationship of brothers Cal and Frank Belanger, which takes fraternal antipathy to a whole new level. Enemies seemingly since childhood, the ...Show more
The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux
28.00 NZD
29.00 (3% off)
Category: General Fiction
Award-winning writer Paul Theroux removes the mystery and reveals the real India in his compelling novel "The Elephanta Suite". We in the West think we know India. But, as Paul Theroux reveals, we need to think again..."The Elephanta Suite" brilliantly explores the shifting stories of those who come to ...Show more
The Family Arsenal by Paul Theroux
30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
"The Family Arsenal" is a darkly comic novel of warped morals and disillusionment in South London by the award-winning writer Paul Theroux. In South London terrorists plot...Hood, a renegade American diplomat, envisions a new urban order in the opium for of his room. He flirts with terrorists, hoping to ...Show more
The Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
30.00 NZD
31.00 (3% off)
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
Return to "The Great Railway Bazaar" in "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star" as Paul Theroux experiences the journey that launched his travel writing career for the second time. Thirty years ago Paul Theroux left London and travelled across Asia and back again by train. His account of the journey - "The Gr ...Show more
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train through Asia by Paul Theroux
24.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"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 ...Show more
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific by Paul Theroux
29.95 NZD
35.00 (14% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
This travel book follows Paul Theroux's explorations of the Pacific islands by collapsible kayak. Paddling through the islands, he also finds an unusual melting pot of cultures and contrasts.
The Last Train to Zona Verde: Overland from Cape Town to Angola by Paul Theroux
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
The Last Train to Zona Verde is Paul Theroux's compelling account of his final African journey. Heading north from Cape Town, through South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Angola, Paul Theroux makes a final journey along Africa's western edge. The end of the line is the Congo but Theroux discovers that h ...Show more