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Ghost Train To The Eastern Star: On The Tracks Of The Great Railway Bazaar * SIGNED * // FIRST EDITION //
by Theroux, Paul
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0618418873
- ISBN 13
- 9780618418879
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. FIRST Edition AND Printing, with publishers full number line on copyright page. * SIGNED * by author DIRECTLY ONTO THE TITLE PAGE, page (signature only). A FLAWLESS Volume in same condition UNclipped dust jacket. Fabulous "Arm Chair Travel" through eastern Europe. Map end-papers. A clean, tight and unmarked MINT copy. 496 pages. Mylar protected jacket.
Synopsis
Paul Theroux returns to the transcontinental expedition that made Great Railway Bazaar a classic of travel literature and realizes—in rich, anecdotal detail—how much the world has changed. Half a lifetime ago, Paul Theroux virtually invented the modern travel narrative by recounting his grand tour by train through Asia. In the three decades since, the world he recorded in that book has undergone phenomenal change. The Soviet Union has collapsed and China has risen; India booms while Burma smothers under dictatorship; Vietnam flourishes in the aftermath of the havoc America was unleashing on it the last time he passed through. In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star , Theroux re-creates that earlier journey. His odyssey takes him from eastern Europe, still hung-over from communism, through tense but thriving Turkey into the Caucasus, where Georgia limps back toward feudalism while its neighbor Azerbaijan revels in oil-fueled capitalism. Theroux is firsthand witness to it all, encountering adventures only he could have: from the literary (sparring with the incisive Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk) to the dissolute (surviving a week-long bender on the Trans-Siberian Railroad). Wherever he goes, his omnivorous curiosity and unerring eye for detail never fail to inspire, enlighten, inform, and entertain.
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- Margins13 Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002907
- Title
- Ghost Train To The Eastern Star: On The Tracks Of The Great Railway Bazaar * SIGNED * // FIRST EDITION //
- Author
- Theroux, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0618418873
- ISBN 13
- 9780618418879
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2008
- LCCN
- 2008011436
- Keywords
- SIGNED; travel; Eastern Europe; Turkey; Caucasus; Azerbaijan;
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