Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

A trip down memory lane and across the continents for the most influential travel writer. Thirty years ago, Paul Theroux left London and travelled across Asia and back again by train. His account of the journey, The Great Railway Bazaar, was a landmark book and established his name as the foremost travel writer of his generation.

Now Theroux makes the trip all over again. Through Eastern Europe, India and Asia to discover the changes that have swept the continents, and also to learn what an old man will make of a young man's journey.

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is a brilliant chronicle of change and an exploration of how travel is 'the saddest of pleasures'. (publishers blurb)