For Over Fifty Years, Paul Theroux Has Set The Gold Standard For Travel Writing.

Paul theroux was born on april 10, 1941, in medford, massachusetts, to devout catholic parents. A journey through adventure and literature early life and education. Theroux is an american travel writer and novelist, whose best known work of travel writing is perhaps the great railway bazaar (1975).

Celebrated As The “Indiana Jones Of American Literature,” Legendary Author Paul Theroux Has Explored The World And Shared His Vision Of It In More Than 50 Books Of Bestselling Fiction And.

He sailed the entire british coastline. Half a century after his first visit, paul theroux looks back on a lifetime of adventures in burma, now myanmar, which featured in two of his classic travelogues — and. Getting paid for what he wrote) began in the peace corps in 1964 and his early published works were about the experience of being overseas in africa.

A Journey Around Great Britain (1983) Was Theroux’s First Travel Book And Appeared After He Had Lived In Britain For Eleven Years.

The tao of travel takes readers on a trip through the genre of travel literature accompanied by some of the greatest literary travelers of all time, like jon krakauer and jack. In his latest, ghost train to the eastern star, theroux retraces the steps he took in his first notable travel book, the great railway bazaar, published more than 30 years ago. A mexican journey, literary maestro paul theroux brings to light both the traditions and turmoil’s that shape of the life the deeply proud mexican.

Now In His Seventies, He Remains As Curious And Fearless As Ever, As Evidenced In His New Book,.

A grand tour of the mediterranean’ starts from the pillars of hercules in the strait of gibraltar and travels along the mediterranean coast, passing. In his latest book, on the plain of snakes: