"Travel connoisseurs divide the world into those places they've been dying to visit or revisit and places they'd never set foot in but are glad someone else did. This year's volume of travel writing . . . focuses mostly on the latter with derring-do dispatches." -- "USA Today"A far-ranging collectio[...]

Paul Theroux returns to the transcontinental expedition that made "Great Railway Bazaar" a classic of travel literature and realizes--in rich, anecdotal detail--how much the world has changed. Half a lifetime ago, Paul Theroux virtually invented the modern travel narrative by recounting his grand to[...]

Ellis Hock never believed that he would return to Africa. He runs an old-fashioned menswear store in a small town in Massachusetts but still dreams of his Eden, the four years he spent in Malawi with the Peace Corps, cut short when he had to return to take over the family business. When his wife lea[...]

In this collection of essays and articles written over the last fifteen years, Paul Theroux demonstrates how the traveling life and the writing life are intimately connected. Not simply an escape from the mundane, travel has always been a creative act for Theroux. His journeys in remote hinterlands [...]

The author of Riding the Iron Rooster recounts in vivid, exhilarating detail his journey--by kayak--through the diverse landscapes and wonders of New Zealand, Tahiti, Hawaii, Easter Island, and other islands of the Pacific. Reprint.[...]

Paul Theroux, one of the world's most popular authors, both for his travel books and his fiction, has produced an off-beat story of 1960s weirdos unlike anything he has ever written.
During the time of Lyndon Johnson's presidency, Herbie Gneiss is forced to leave college to get a job, which happ[...]

Contemporary / American English Allie Fox hates the United States and he hates the twentieth century. He takes his wife and children to the jungle in Honduras to find a new, simpler way of living. But things go wrong, and their lives become much worse and more frightening than anything back home.[...]