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The Imperial Way: By Rail from Peshawar to Chittagong
Hardcover, 143 pages
Published
August 1st 1987
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
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A What a fantastic book! Theroux writes of his train journey from Peshawar, Pakistan, through India, ending at Bangledesh. He has such an aware eye and sees travel, people, and the experiences in such an interesting manner. I love all his travel books. The first 25 or 30 pages are him writing about this trip; the latter portion of the book is comprised of photographs by Steve Curry of people and places scene on a train journey like this. Fascinating. Highly recommended for travelers, fans of Ind...more
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This is not worth seeking out or anything, but if you ever come across it, take a look ... it's got some great photos and a short but good train story by Paul Theroux about riding the several train lines in India that the pictures are based around.
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Paul Edward Theroux is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), a travelogue about a trip he made by train from Great Britain through Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, through South Asia, then South-East Asia, up through East Asia, as far east as Japan, and then back across Russia to his point of origin. Although perhaps best know...more
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