Fresh air fiend : travel writings, 1985-2000 /
A collection of essays and articles in which Paul Theroux reflects on his traveling experiences.
| Основен автор: | Theroux, Paul. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Boston :
Houghton Mifflin,
2000.
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Съдържание:
- Time travel (Memory and creation : the view from fifty
- The object of desire
- At the sharp end : being in the Peace Corps
- Five travel epiphanies
- Travel writing : the point of it)
- Fresh air fiend (Fresh air fiend
- The awkward question
- The moving target
- Dead reckoning to Nantucket
- Paddling to Plymouth
- Fever chart : parasites I have known)
- A sense of place (Diaries of two cities : Amsterdam and London
- Farewell to Britain : look thy last on all things lovely
- Gravy train : a private railway car
- The Maine woods : camping in the snow
- Trespassing in Florida
- Down the Zambezi
- The true size of Cape Cod
- German humor)
- China (Down the Yangtze
- Chinese miracles
- Ghost stories : a letter from Hong Kong on the eve of the hand-over).
- The Pacific (Hawaii : The other Oahu; [and], On Molokai
- Connected in Palau
- Tasting the Pacific
- Palawan : up and down the creek
- Christmas Island : bombs and birds)
- Books of travel (My own (The edge of the great rift : three African novels. 'The black house'; 'The great railway bazaar'; 'The old Patagonian Express'; The making of 'The mosquito coast'; 'Kowloon Tong'
- Other people's ('Robinson Crusoe'; Thoreau's 'Cape Cod'; 'The secret agent : a dangerous Londoner'
- 'The worst journey in the world'; 'Racers to the pole'; 'PrairyErth'; 'Looking for a ship').
- Escapes and exiles (Chatwin revisited
- Greeneland
- V.S. Pritchett : the foreigner as traveler
- William Simpson : artist and traveler
- Rajat Neogy : an Indian in Uganda
- The exile Moritz Thomsen)
- Fugues (Unspeakable rituals and outlandish beliefs
- Gilstrap, the homesick explorer
- The return of Bingo Humpage).