Bibliograph

Fresh air fiend, travel writings, 1985-2000, Paul Theroux

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Label

Fresh air fiend, travel writings, 1985-2000, Paul Theroux

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-466)

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fresh air fiend

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

42892218

Responsibility statement

Paul Theroux

Sub title

travel writings, 1985-2000

Summary

A collection of essays and articles in which Paul Theroux reflects on his traveling experiences

Table Of Contents

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)

Target audience

adult

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