Fresh-Air Fiend: Travel Writings, 1985-2000 by Paul Theroux

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Dust jacket has creasing at top and tail. Small tear at right front cover near top - repaired with book tape.

As a self-confessed fresh-air fiend, Paul Theroux has travelled much more widely than even his travel books suggest.

In this extensive collection of his shorter travel writings, he writes of sweatshops in Dongguan, massage parlours in Kowloon, jellyfish in Palau and bomb craters on Christmas Island. He visits the King of the Lozis at a bend in the Zambezi River, and the Precious Stone Castle on the Yangtze. He explores the remote island of Palawan in the Philippines and camps in the snow-covered woods of Maine.

The nature of travel itself is also one of his subjects. The author writes about the past, of time travel, and about his own books and those of other travellers.

Throughout this absorbing and inspiring book, he writes of startling encounters and memorable scenes - fresh air in every sense. (publisher blurb)