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Figures in a landscape : people and places : essays: 2001-2016
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Figures in a landscape : people and places : essays: 2001-2016
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Physical Description:
vxii, 386 pages ; 24 cm.
General Note:
"An Eamon Dolan book."
Summary:
"A delectable collection of Theroux's recent writing on great places, people, and prose"--
Contents:
Introduction: Study for figures in a landscape -- My drug tour: searching for ayahuasca -- Thoreau in the wilderness -- Liz in Neverland -- Greeneland -- Hunter in the kingdom of fear -- Conrad at sea -- Simenon's world -- Dr. Sacks, the healer -- Nurse Wolf, the hurter -- Robin Williams: "Who's he when he's at home?" -- Tea with Muriel Spark -- Mrs. Robinson revisited -- Talismans for our dreams -- The rock star's burden -- Living with geese -- Trespassing in Africa -- The seozires in Zimbabwe -- Stanley: the ultimate African explorer -- Paul Bowles: not a tourist -- Maugham: up and down in Asia -- English hours: nothing personal -- Traveling beyond Google -- Hawaii: islands upon islands -- Mockingbird in Monroeville -- Benton's America -- My life as a reader -- The real me: a memory -- Life and the magazine -- Dear old dad: memories of my father -- The trouble with autobiography.
Publication Info:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
Subject:
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Travel writing.
Theroux, Paul
Theroux, Paul -- Travel.
ת׳רו, פול
American authors
SAILS ISBN:
9780544870307