Theroux, Paul

". . . a collection of travel poetry composed by real travellers, weekending tourists, feverish fantasists, bluffers, dreamers, brave adventurers and resolute stay-at-homes"--Provided by publisher.

Theroux compares the vast Pacific to the universe; each island like a distant star, each archipelago like a galaxy.

Describes the exotic adventures of the author as he kayaks from island to island in the Polynesian Pacific.

Describes the author's year-long travels by train throughout China, from rural villages to the cities of Beijing and Shanghai.

The author describes his experiences and what he learned about his adopted country while traveling clockwise around the coast of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland in 1982.

An account of Theroux's trip by train from Boston to Bogota, Columbia.