Picture Palace, Paperback - Paul Theroux

Reducere. "Never a dull moment . . . Vivid and deft." -- New York Review of Books Maude Pratt is a legend, a photographer famous for her cutting-edge techniq...

A compendium of wit, wisdom and travel trips gathered together by Theroux after 50 years on the road. Features his own work, and that of other auth...

Reducere. The journeys of Paul Theroux take place not only in exotic, unexpected places of the world but in the thoughts, reading, and emotions of the writer...

An account of Paul Theroux's ultimate "safari", from Cairo to Capetown. 35, 000 copies sold in hardback. Undoubtedly one of the biggest travel book...

Theroux contributes new prefaces to these new editions of his travel writing classics.

Having travelled down the right side of Africa in }Dark Star Safari{, Paul Theroux sets out this time from Cape Town, heading northwards in a new d...

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Necunoscuta de la Palazzo d'Oro - Paul Theroux

Decades ago Massachusetts salesman Ellis Hock spent four years in Africa - and the continent has never left him. So when his wife walks out and his...

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"Suave and accomplished . . . The stories] are unsettling, resistant to tidy denouement and faintly misanthropic." -- Washington Post "Beneath the ...

Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and tak...

Reducere. Ninety-nine years of colonial rule are ending as the British prepare to hand over Hong Kong to China. For Betty Mullard and her son, Bunt, it doesn...

Reducere. O explorare profunda a mecanismelor nevazute ce anima dorinta sexuala.Un tanar american soseste la Palazzo d’Oro, in Sicilia, in anii ’60. Sarac, d...

Reducere. The place? China in 1271. The quest? The golden tablet of Kublai Khan. The problem? Just about everything The Imagination Station adventures contin...

A contemporary novel which tells the story of Marco Stanley Fogg - orphan, child of the 1960s - spanning three generations. The narrative moves fro...

Reducere. 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 thi...

Reducere. First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of ...

Full of encounters and memorable scenes, fascinating and sometimes bizarre locations, and enlightening musings on themes as various as sexual attra...

The author of }Deep South{ and }The Great Railway Bazaar{'s body of work is mined for its best bits, brought together here, with profiles of famous...

Reducere. This heartfelt and revealing account of Paul Theroux's thirty-year friendship with the legendary V. S. Naipaul is an intimate record of a literary ...

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Reducere. Description"A portrait of an optimist with curiosity and affection for humanity in all its forms."--The New York Times Book Review "Theroux is at t...

Reducere. In this wickedly satiric romp, Paul Theroux captures the essence of Hawaii as it has never been depicted. The novel's narrator, a down-on-his-luck ...

Reducere. "Theroux's eye for landscape remains as sharp as ever . . . It's Theroux's remarkable gift for getting strangers to reveal themselves that makes go...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionA master of the travel narrative weaves three intertwined novellas of Westerners transformed by their sojourns in India. This startling,...

Reducere. " Hock] knows he is ensorcelled by exoticism, but he can't help himself. And, as things go from bad to worse and the pages start to turn faster, ne...

Offers the reader insight into the double-life of Andre Parent in six compelling snapshots.Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Paul TherouxNumbe...

Reducere. "Theroux's work is like no one else's." -Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review From legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel f...

Reducere. "Theroux is at his best when he tellspeople's] stories, happy and sad . . . Theroux's great mission had always been to transport us beyond that rea...

Reducere. In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to bui...

Reducere. "A book to be plundered and raided." -- New York Times Book Review "A portal into a world of timeless travel literature curated by one of the great...