The Great Railway Bazaarby Paul Theroux | |
| Category: |
"Travel" |
|---|---|
| Pages: | 342 |
| Year of Publication: | 1975 |
| Date Added: | 08/11/2006 |
| Date Read: | 11/26/1994 |
| Notes: | Subtitle: By Train Through Asia This is a journal of a trip covering the major rail routes available in the 1970s across Europe and Asia. Theroux, an American, sets off from London on a tour where the journey itself was the goal. He wanted to sit back, observe, and absorb the atmosphere of the trains. In the book, he details his experiences on the trains, tells us about his fellow passengers, and describes what he was seeing out the windows while the trains wound across the tracks from Paris to Italy, Bulgaria to Turkey, Pakistan, India, Ceylon, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Japan, and the Soviet Union. Occasionally, he stopped for a night or two in a hotel along the way, and he also tells us of his adventures at these stops. |
| My Rating: | 7 |