Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

Name: Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
Brand: HMH Books
SKU: 9780547237930
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On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar

Autor: Paul Theroux

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Väzba: Brožovaná

Vydavateľ: HMH Books

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Half a lifetime ago, Paul Theroux virtually invented the modern travel narrative by recounting his g...

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Autor

Paul Theroux

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

2009

Stránok

512

EAN

9780547237930

ISBN

0547237936

Enbook ID

11006002

Vydavateľ

HMH Books

Hmotnosť

445

Rozmery

135 x 203 x 32

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Half a lifetime ago, Paul Theroux virtually invented the modern travel narrative by recounting his grand tour by train through Asia. In the three decades since, the world he recorded in that book has undergone phenomenal change.The Soviet Union has collapsed and China has risen; India booms while Burma smothers under dictatorship; Vietnam flourishes in the aftermath of the havoc America was unleashing on it the last time he passed through. In "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, "Theroux re-creates that earlier journey. His odyssey takes him from eastern Europe, still hung-over from communism, through tense but thriving Turkey into the Caucasus, where Georgia limps back toward feudalism while its neighbor Azerbaijan revels in oil-fueled capitalism.Theroux is firsthand witness to it all, encountering adventures only he could have: from the literary (sparring with the incisive Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk) to the dissolute (surviving a week-long bender on the Trans-Siberian Railroad).Wherever he goes, his omnivorous curiosity and unerring eye for detail never fail to inspire, enlighten, inform, and entertain.

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