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Sunrise with seamonsters/ Paul Theroux.
LIBRA Special PS3570.H4 S8 1985b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Theroux, Paul.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voyages and travels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii 365 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- Uncorrected Proof.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1985.
- Summary:
- This book brings together a variety of experiences and adventures from the travels of the best-selling author to such places as Corsica, Burma, Cape Cod, East Africa, Afghanistan, a leper colony, and the New York subways.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The edge of the Great Rift
- Burning grass
- Winter in Africa
- The cerebral snapshot
- State of emergency
- Leper colony
- Scenes from a curfew
- Tarzan is an expatriate
- Cowardice
- Seven Burmese days
- The novel is dead, Allah be praised!
- The killing of Hastings Banda
- Lord of the ring
- A love-scene after work
- V.S. Naipaul
- Kazantzakis' England
- Malaysia
- Memories of old Afganistan
- The night ferry to Paris
- Stranger on a train
- An English visitor
- Discovering Dingle
- The exotic view
- Homage to Mrs. Robinson
- My extended family
- A circuit of Corsica
- Nixon's neighborhood
- Nixon's memoirs
- The Orient Express
- Traveling home: high school reunion
- Rudyard Kipling
- John McEnroe, Jr.
- Christmas ghosts
- Henry Miller
- V.S. Pritchett
- The past recaptured
- Railways of the Raj
- Subterranean gothic
- Easy money: patronage
- Mapping the world
- The last laugh
- Graham Greene's traveling companion
- Summertime on the Cape
- His monkey wife
- Being a man
- Making tracks to Chittagong
- Introducing jungle lovers
- Dead man leading
- What Maisie knew
- Sunrise with seamonsters
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Publication information on first leaf.
- Book description preceding half-title.
- OCLC:
- 904719051
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