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100 Journeys for the SpiritSacred - Inspiring - Mysterious - Enlightening by Michael Ondaatje (Contribution by); Alexander McCall Smith (Contribution by); Joseph M. Marshall III (Contribution by); Andrew Motion (Contribution by); Jan Morris (Contribution by); Mark Tully (Contribution by); Paul Theroux (Contribution by); Pico Iyer (Foreword by); Joan Duncan Oliver
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
Sacred grounds and even simple landscapes can put us in direct touch with the spirit. From the prehistoric megaliths of Carnac in Brittany to the Shrine of Imam Reza in Mashhad, Iran, to the giant medicine wheel at Bighorn, Wyoming, 100 Journeys for the Spirit reveals the mysticism enveloped in these tr ...Show more
A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta by Paul Theroux
Category: Fiction
Award-winning writer Paul Theroux takes you on a journey through the streets of Calcutta where all is not as it seems and a smiling face could be harbouring a dark secret in the thrilling novel "A Dead Hand: a Crime in Calcutta". Jerry Delfont is a travel writer with writer's block. Lounging in Calcutta ...Show more
Blinding Light by Paul Theroux
Category: Fiction
Slade Steadman has written one of the most famous travel books ever. But he has been unable to write anything else for thirty years. A journey downriver in a remote eastern province of Ecuador among the Secoya Indians gives him the experience he has been seeking - and a miracle drug. He returns to the U ...Show more
Blinding Light: A Novel by Paul Theroux
Category: Fiction
Slade Steadman is the author of a world-famous travel book, but has struggled to match its success for the past thirty years. A journey downriver in a remote eastern province of Ecuador gives him the experience he has been seeking and a miracle drug, which induces temporary blindness. On his return to t ...Show more
Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux
Category: Fiction
'There is a short period in everyone's life when his character is fixed forever . . . ' George OrwellEric Blair stood out amongst his fellow police trainees in 1920s Burma. Nineteen years old, unusually tall, a diffident loner fresh from Eton, after five years spent in the narrow colonial world of the R ...Show more
Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux
Category: Fiction
From renowned author Paul Theroux comes the fascinating, atmospheric tale of George Orwell's years in Burma. 'There is a short period in everyone's life when his character is fixed forever.' - George Orwell Before George Orwell was Orwell - the pen name he took on becoming a writer - he was Eric Blair ...Show more
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
Category: Travel
In this title, Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo - the hard way. Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, he visits some of the most beautiful and dangerous landscapes on earth. It is a journey of discovery and of rediscovery - of t ...Show more
Dark Star Safari (Popular Penguin) by Paul Theroux
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
Paul Theroux's Dark Star Safari is a journey overland from Cairo to Cape Town. He travels across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, through Egypt, the Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Encompassing some of the most beautiful landscapes o ...Show more
Dead Hand - A Crime in Calcutta by THEROUX Paul
Category: Crime and Thrillers
When Jerry Delfont, a travel writer with writer's block, receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs Merrill Unger, with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son's, he is sufficiently intrigued to pursue the story. Who is the dead boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel room, h ...Show more
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads by Paul Theroux
Category: Travel
For the past fifty years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners of the earth - to China, India, Africa, the Pacific Islands, South America, Russia, and elsewhere - and brought them to life in his cool, exacting prose. In Deep South he turns his gaze to a region much closer to his home. Travellin ...Show more
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads by Paul Theroux
Category: Travel
For the past fifty years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners of the earth - to China, India, Africa, the Pacific Islands, South America, Russia, and elsewhere - and brought them to life in his cool, exacting prose. In Deep South he turns his gaze to a region much closer to his home. Travellin ...Show more
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads by Paul Theroux
Category: Biography
This is Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. Acclaimed and beloved travel writer Paul Theroux turns his attention to his own country - America - for the first time in Deep South. For the past fifty years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners of the earth - to China, India, Africa, the Pacific Islan ...Show more