Paul Theroux's highly acclaimed novels include Blinding Light, Hotel Honolulu, My Other Life, Kowloon Tong, and The Mosquito Coast. His renowned travel books include Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Dark Star Safari, Riding the Iron Rooster, The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, and The Happy Isles of Oceania. He lives in Hawaii and on Cape Cod.
“There are those who think that Paul Theroux is the
finest travel writer working in English. This collection can only
enhance that reputation.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Reads like a wonderful novel.”—The Pittsburgh Press
“Powerful . . . This compendium unequivocally offers insight into
the mind of a foremost American fiction writer who became an
accidental tourist.”—The Christian Science Monitor
“Theroux is a wonderful traveling companion. . . . To the
Ends of the Earth combines the best of his travel writing. . .
. With him the reader shares a conversation with a sultan on a polo
ground in Malaysia; hears people ‘mourn with firecrackers,
scattering cherrybombs on the tombstone’ in a
Chinese cemetery in Singapore; feels overdressed around
nudists in Corsica; sees sandbagged houses
and bombcraters left in Vietnam on a cold December day in
1973.”—The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star
“Travel writing at its best . . . As you
travel voyeuristically with Theroux, across the vast
wastelands of interior China, the convoluted cultures of Latin
America or campy seacoast towns of England, you're struck with his
slightly jaundiced eye for the overlooked but telling detail, his
skeptic's ear for the offhand but important comment.”—The Houston
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