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