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

Автор: Paul Theroux
Название: Dark Star Safari
ISBN: 0140281118 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140281118
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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: Mosquito coast
ISBN: 1405876646 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405876643
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Описание: Advanced Expert thoroughly prepares your adult and young adult students for the CAE while developing their language awareness and communicative skills. Advanced Expert CAE corresponds to level C1 of the Common European Framework. Contemporary / American English (Available April 2008) Allie Fox hates the United States and he hates the twentieth century. He takes his wife and children to the jungle in Honduras to find a new, simpler way of living. But things go wrong, and their lives become much worse and more frightening than anything back home.

Автор: Theroux, Paul
Название: On the Plain of Snakes
ISBN: 0241977525 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241977521
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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: Paul Theroux
Название: The Happy Isles of Oceania
ISBN: 0140159762 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140159769
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Описание: Invites readers to join the author on one of his most exotic and tantalizing adventures exploring the coasts and blue lagoons of the Pacific Islands, and taking up residence to discover the secrets of these isles.

Автор: Paul Theroux
Название: The Tao of Travel
ISBN: 0141044268 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141044262
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Описание: A compendium of travel writing from a master traveller. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, it celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped the author, as a reader and a traveller.

Автор: Paul Theroux
Название: Fresh-air Fiend
ISBN: 0241950554 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241950555
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Описание: Full of encounters and memorable scenes, fascinating and sometimes bizarre locations, and enlightening musings on themes as various as sexual attraction and the point of travel writing itself, this is a collection of shorter pieces.

Автор: Paul Theroux
Название: Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
ISBN: 0141015721 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141015729
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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: Paul Theroux
Название: The Lower River
ISBN: 0241957745 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241957745
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Описание: Decades ago Massachusetts salesman Ellis Hock spent four years in Africa - and the continent has never left him. So when his wife walks out and his business goes belly up, Ellis turns back to the one place in which he briefly found happiness. Yet returning to the village of Malabo shocks him. The school he built is a ruin.

Автор: Paul Theroux
Название: The Consul`s File
ISBN: 0241950570 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241950579
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Описание: Spencer Savage, a young American consul, is posted to Ayer Hitam, a small Malaysian town, in the 1970s. Told to close down this remote outpost in the sweltering jungle, he instead finds himself drawn to the many characters he meets among the Malays, Indians, Japanese, Chinese and the clubbable expat Brits.

Автор: Paul Theroux
Название: Saint Jack
ISBN: 0241955149 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241955147
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Описание: Jack Flowers, saint or sinner, caught a passing bumboat into Singapore and got a job as a water-clerk to a Chinese ship chandler. Now, on the side, he offers girls (indeed `anything, anything at all`) to tourists, sailors, residents and expatriates, but he is haunted by his lack of worldly success and his fifty-three years weight heavily on him.

Автор: Paul Theroux
Название: The Kingdom by the Sea
ISBN: 0140071814 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140071818
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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.