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  • Published: 26 September 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141038841
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $35.00
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The Great Railway Bazaar

By Train Through Asia

  • Paul Theroux



Paul Theroux's world-famous and well-loved homage to train travel brought to you in a stunning new cover

The Orient Express; The Khyber Pass Local; the Delhi Mail from Jaipur; the Golden Arrow of Kuala; the Trans-Siberian Express; these are just some of the trains steaming through Paul Theroux's epic rail journey from London across Europe through India and Asia. This was a trip of discovery made in the mid-seventies, a time before the West had embraced the places, peoples, food, faiths and cultures of the East. For us now, as much as for Theroux then, to visit the lands of The Great Railway Bazaar is an encounter with all that is truly foreign and exotic - and with what we have since lost.

  • Published: 26 September 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141038841
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $35.00
Categories:

Praise for The Great Railway Bazaar

He has done our travelling for us brilliantly

William Golding

One of the most entertaining books I have read in a long while . . . Superb comic detail

Angus Wilson, Observer

He has done our travelling for us brilliantly

William Golding