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Figures in a landscape : people and places : essays: 2001-2016 / Paul Theroux.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Theroux, Paul, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theroux, Paul.
- Theroux, Paul--Travel.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Travel.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Essays.
- Travel writing.
- Nonfiction.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 386 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- People and places : essays: 2001-2016
- Essays 2001-2016
- Paul Theroux essays 2001-2016
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
- Summary:
- "A delectable collection of Theroux's recent writing on great places, people, and prose"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- "An Eamon Dolan book."
- Other Format:
- Online version: Theroux, Paul author. Figures in a landscape.
- ISBN:
- 9780544870307
- 0544870301
- OCLC:
- 1005795802
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