Theroux, Paul

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Poems for travellers

2019
". . . 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.

The happy isles of Oceania

paddling the Pacific
1992
Theroux compares the vast Pacific to the universe; each island like a distant star, each archipelago like a galaxy.

Fresh air fiend

travel writings, 1985-2000
2001

The happy isles of Oceania

paddling the Pacific
1993
Describes the exotic adventures of the author as he kayaks from island to island in the Polynesian Pacific.

Riding the iron rooster

by train through China
1989
Describes the author's year-long travels by train throughout China, from rural villages to the cities of Beijing and Shanghai.

The kingdom by the sea

a journey around the coast of Great Britain
2006
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.

The old Patagonian express

by train through the Americas
1979
An account of Theroux's trip by train from Boston to Bogota, Columbia.

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