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From Barnes & NoblePaul Theroux, the author often acclaimed as the dean of travel writers, earned that title with classics including The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonia Express, Riding the Iron Rooster, and The Last Train to Zona Verde. Thus, he has the perfect credentials to preside over the newest installment of the Best American Travel Writing annual for the second time; the first was in 2001. This paperback and NOOK original contains more than 300 pages of travel essays that span the world. Editor's recommendation. Read More Show Less Product Details ISBN-13: 9780544332584 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publication date: 10/7/2014 Series: Best American Travel Writing Series Sold by: Barnes & NobleFormat: eBook Pages: 336Sales rank: 81847File size: 3 MB Related Subjects Essays General & Miscellaneous Literature Anthologies Travel Essays & Descriptions Meet the Author More by this Author Picture Palace: A Novel Mr.
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Paul Theroux was born and educated in the United States. After graduating from university in 1963, he travelled first to Italy and then to Africa, where he worked as a Peace Corps teacher at a bush school in Malawi, and as a lecturer at Makerere University in Uganda. In 1968 he joined the University of Singapore and taught in the Department of English for three years. Throughout this time he was publishing short stories and journalism, and wrote a number of novels. Among these were Fong and the Indians, Girls at Play and Jungle Lovers, all of which appear in one volume, On the Edge of the Great Rift (Penguin, 1996) . In the early 1970s Paul Theroux moved with his wife and two children to Dorset, where he wrote Saint Jack, and then on to London. He was a resident in Britain for a total of seventeen years. In this time he wrote a dozen volumes of highly praised fiction and a number of successful travel books, from which a selection of writings were taken to compile his book Travelling the World (Penguin, 1992) . Paul Theroux has now returned to the United States, but he continues to travel widely. Paul Theroux's many books include Picture Palace, which won the 1978 Whitbread Literary Award; The Mosquito Coast, which was the 1981 Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year and joint winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was also made into a feature film; Riding the Iron Rooster, which won the 1988 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; The Pillars of Hercules, shortlisted for the 1996 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; My Other Life: A Novel, Kowloon Tong, Sir Vidia's Shadow, Fresh-air Fiend and Hotel Honolulu. Blindness is his latest novel. Most of his books are published by Penguin.
