On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey, Theroux Paul

Автор: Paul Theroux
Название: Dark Star Safari
ISBN: 0140281118 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140281118
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Offers an account of a journey from Cairo to Cape Town. Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, the author visits some of the most beautiful landscapes on earth, and some of the most dangerous.

Автор: Theroux, Paul
Название: On the Plain of Snakes
ISBN: 0241977525 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241977521
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO TRAVEL WRITING 2020 The master of contemporary travel writing, Paul Theroux, immerses himself in the beautiful and troubled heart of modern MexicoNogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A forty-foot steel fence runs through its centre, separating the prosperous US side from the impoverished Mexican side. It is a fascinating site of tension, now more than ever, as the town fills with hopeful border crossers and the deportees who have been caught and brought back.

And it is here that Paul Theroux will begin his journey into the culturally rich but troubled heart of modern Mexico. Moving through the deserts just south of the Arizona border, Theroux finds a place brimming with charm, yet visibly marked by both the US border patrol looming to the north and mounting discord from within. Attending local language and culinary schools, driving through the country and meeting its people, Paul Theroux gets under the skin of Mexico.

From the writer praised for his 'curiosity and affection for humanity in all its forms' (New York Times Book Review), On The Plain of Snakes is an urgent and mesmerising exploration of a region in conflict. Praise for Paul Theroux:'As cool as Maugham... as observant, intuitive, wry, inventive and eloquent as Graham Greene' Sunday Times'Theroux's work remains the standard by which other travel writing must be judged' Observer'The world's most perceptive travel writer' Daily Mail'One of the most accomplished and worldly-wise writers of his generation' The Times

Автор: Theroux Paul
Название: Picture Palace
ISBN: 0544340809 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780544340800
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Описание: Maude Pratt is a legend, a photographer famous for her cutting-edge techniques and her uncanny ability to strip away the masks of the world's most recognizable celebrities and luminaries. Now in her 70s, Maude has been in the public eye since the 1920s and her unparalleled portfolio includes intimate portraits of Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, and Picasso. While Maude possesses a singular capability to expose the inner lives of her subjects, she is obsessive about protecting her own, hiding her deepest secret away in the "picture palace" of her memory. But when a young archivist comes to stay in Maude's Cape Cod home and begins sorting through her fifty years of work, Maude is forced to come face to face with her past and come to terms, at last, with the tragedies she's buried away.

Автор: Theroux Paul
Название: Mr. Bones: Twenty Stories
ISBN: 0544483952 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780544483958
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Описание: "Suave and accomplished . . . The stories] are unsettling, resistant to tidy denouement and faintly misanthropic." -- Washington Post

"Beneath the deceptive elegance of these stories, land mines lurk, and Theroux detonates them with gusto." -- O, the Oprah Magazine

A family watches their patriarch transform into the singing, wisecracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. An art collector publicly destroys his most valuable pieces. Two boys stand by as their father wages war on the raccoons living under their house. In this new collection, acclaimed author Paul Theroux shows us humanity possessed, consumed by compulsive desire, always with his carefully honed eye for detail and the subtle idiosyncrasies that bring his characters to life. Searing, dark, and sure to unsettle, Mr. Bones is a stunning display of Theroux's "fluent, faintly sinister powers of vision and imagination" (The New Yorker).

"Fans of Theroux's fiction will be pleased to observe, in the twenty stories collected in Mr. Bones, clear evidence of how little he has mellowed over time . . . Mr. Bones is a series of characteristically dark and sharply focused snapshots from the world that Paul Theroux has observed--and invented." -- Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review

Автор: Paul Theroux
Название: Riding the Iron Rooster
ISBN: 0140112952 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140112955
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Paul Theroux left Victoria Station in April thinking that taking eight trains across Europe, Eastern Europe, the USSR and Mongolia would be the easy way to get to the Chinese border. The reality, of course, was very different. In fact, Theroux experienced a decidedly odd and unexpected trip to China that set the challenging tone for his journey.

Автор: Theroux, Paul
Название: Figures in a Landscape
ISBN: 0241977509 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241977507
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: A rich feast of travel writing, literary essays and fascinating interviews from Sunday Times bestselling travel author Paul Theroux'Wonderful... Evidence of both the breadth of Theroux's interests and his skill in bringing them to life' Sunday Times Culture Drawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons (Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth Taylor, Robin Williams) to intimate personal remembrances; from thrilling adventures in Africa to literary writings from Theroux's rich and expansive personal reading. Collectively these pieces offer a fascinating portrait of the author himself, his extraordinary life, restless and ever-curious mind.

'Theroux's work remains the standard by which other travel writing must be judged' Observer'The world's most perceptive travel writer' Daily Mail

Автор: Paul Theroux
Название: The Kingdom by the Sea
ISBN: 0140071814 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140071818
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: After eleven years living as an American in London, the author set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what Britain and the British are really like. It was 1982, the summer of the Falklands War, the ideal time, he found, to surprise the British into talking about themselves.

Автор: Paul Theroux
Название: The Pillars of Hercules
ISBN: 0140245332 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140245332
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Описание: At the gateway to the Mediterranean lie the two Pillars of Hercules: Gibraltar and Ceuta, in Morocco. Paul Theroux decided to travel from one to the other taking the long way round. He travels by a dilapidated taxi, smoke-filled bus, bicycle and even a cruise-liner. This eventful tour aims to evoke the essence of Mediterranean life.

Автор: Paul Theroux
Название: Blinding Light
ISBN: 0141026650 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141026657
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Автор: Paul Theroux
Название: Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
ISBN: 0141015721 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141015729
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Thirty years ago the author left London and travelled across Asia and back again by train. His account of the journey - "The Great Railway Bazaar" - was a landmark book. Now he makes the trip all over again to discover the changes that have swept the continents. In this book, he gives us the highs and lows of his journey.

Автор: Theroux, Paul
Название: Deep South
ISBN: 0241969352 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241969359
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Deep South of America is a place of contradictions. There is the warm, open spirit of the soul food cafes, found in every town, no matter how small. There is the ruined grandeur of numberless ghostly towns, long abandoned by the industries that built them. This book is about this place.

Автор: Theroux Louis
Название: The Call of the Weird
ISBN: 0330435701 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330435703
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: Louis Theroux makes programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society. Here, he revisits America and the people who have most fascinated him to try to discover what motivates them, why they believe the things they believe, and to find out what has happened to them since he last saw them.