Ghost Train to the Eastern Star : On the tracks of 'The Great Railway Bazaar'
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Winner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020
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 made his name as the foremost travel writer of his generation. Now Theroux makes the trip all over again, journeying from London to Asia by train through Eastern Europe, India and beyond 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'. With great descriptive skill, Theroux brings fellow-travelling weirdoes, amateur taxi drivers, bar-girls and long-suffering locals vividly to life. Relaxed, curious, confident and surprisingly tender, his writing has an immediate, vivid quality that makes this a fascinating joy to read.
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