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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star : On the tracks of 'The Great Railway Bazaar' by Paul Theroux, Recorded Books is a hobbies available to read on EtoBox.

What is Ghost Train to the Eastern Star : On the tracks of 'The Great Railway Bazaar' about?

Paul Theroux's Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is a journey from London to Asia by train. Winner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020 Thirty years ago Paul Theroux left London and travelled across Asia and back again by train. His account of the journey - The Great Railway Bazaar - was a landmark book and made his name as the foremost travel writer of his generation. Now Theroux makes the trip all over again. Through Eastern Europe, India and Asia to discover the changes that have swept the continents, and also to learn what an old man will make of a young man's journey. Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is a brilliant chronicle of change and an exploration of how travel is 'the saddest of pleasures'. 'A dazzler, giving us the highs and lows of his journey and tenderness and acerbic humour . . . fellow-travelling weirdoes, amateur taxi drivers, bar-girls and long-suffering locals are brought vividly to life' Spectator 'Fans of Theroux are not likely to be disappointed. Theroux has great descriptive skill . . . the world is slightly less unknown by virtue of reading the book' Sunday Telegraph 'Relaxed, curious, confident, surprisingly tender.

Who reads Ghost Train to the Eastern Star : On the tracks of 'The Great Railway Bazaar'?

Author

Paul Theroux, Recorded Books

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd;McDonough, John, Theroux, Paul

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299885417

Category

hobbies

Subjects

Engineering, Stem

Rating

4 / 5 (38 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14