By Train Through Asia
by Paul Theroux
Recommended by Shashi Bellamkonda
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Hobbies, Travel, and Nonfiction.
First published in 1975, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, th...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Hobbies, Travel, and Nonfiction.
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Shashi Bellamkonda
“I loved the books The Great Indian Railway Bazaar and the Old Patagonia Express The Economist Asks: Paul Theroux”
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