Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618658985
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Beginning in New Zealand and coming to shore in Hawaii, the author explores fifty-one islands along the way in a collapsible kayak.
The Happy Isles of Oceania
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618658985
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Beginning in New Zealand and coming to shore in Hawaii, the author explores fifty-one islands along the way in a collapsible kayak.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618658985
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Beginning in New Zealand and coming to shore in Hawaii, the author explores fifty-one islands along the way in a collapsible kayak.
The Happy Isles of Oceania
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547525184
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 731
Book Description
The author of The Great Railway Bazaar explores the South Pacific by kayak: “This exhilarating epic ranks with [his] best travel books” (Publishers Weekly). In one of his most exotic and adventuresome journeys, travel writer Paul Theroux embarks on an eighteen-month tour of the South Pacific, exploring fifty-one islands by collapsible kayak. Beginning in New Zealand's rain forests and ultimately coming to shore thousands of miles away in Hawaii, Theroux paddles alone over isolated atolls, through dirty harbors and shark-filled waters, and along treacherous coastlines. Along the way, Theroux meets the king of Tonga, encounters street gangs in Auckland, and investigates a cargo cult in Vanuatu. From Australia to Tahiti, Fiji, Easter Island, and beyond, this exhilarating tropical epic is full of disarming observations and high adventure.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547525184
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 731
Book Description
The author of The Great Railway Bazaar explores the South Pacific by kayak: “This exhilarating epic ranks with [his] best travel books” (Publishers Weekly). In one of his most exotic and adventuresome journeys, travel writer Paul Theroux embarks on an eighteen-month tour of the South Pacific, exploring fifty-one islands by collapsible kayak. Beginning in New Zealand's rain forests and ultimately coming to shore thousands of miles away in Hawaii, Theroux paddles alone over isolated atolls, through dirty harbors and shark-filled waters, and along treacherous coastlines. Along the way, Theroux meets the king of Tonga, encounters street gangs in Auckland, and investigates a cargo cult in Vanuatu. From Australia to Tahiti, Fiji, Easter Island, and beyond, this exhilarating tropical epic is full of disarming observations and high adventure.
Happy Isles of Oceania
Songs of the Happy Isles
Author: Maud Peacocke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oceania
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oceania
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Sunrise with Seamonsters
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395415016
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
" ... Collection of decidedly opinionated articles, essays, and ruminations, spanning two decades ..."--Page 4 of cover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395415016
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
" ... Collection of decidedly opinionated articles, essays, and ruminations, spanning two decades ..."--Page 4 of cover
The happy isles
The Great Railway Bazaar
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054752515X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The acclaimed author recounts his epic journey across Europe and Asia in this international bestselling classic of travel literature: “Compulsive reading” (Graham Greene). In 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on a four-month journey by train from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. In The Great Railway Bazaar, he records in vivid detail and penetrating insight the many fascinating incidents, adventures, and encounters of his grand, intercontinental tour. Asia's fabled trains—the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-Siberian Express—are the stars of a journey that takes Theroux on a loop eastbound from London's Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, then back from Japan on the Trans-Siberian. Brimming with Theroux's signature humor and wry observations, this engrossing chronicle is essential reading for both the ardent adventurer and the armchair traveler.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054752515X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The acclaimed author recounts his epic journey across Europe and Asia in this international bestselling classic of travel literature: “Compulsive reading” (Graham Greene). In 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on a four-month journey by train from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. In The Great Railway Bazaar, he records in vivid detail and penetrating insight the many fascinating incidents, adventures, and encounters of his grand, intercontinental tour. Asia's fabled trains—the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-Siberian Express—are the stars of a journey that takes Theroux on a loop eastbound from London's Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, then back from Japan on the Trans-Siberian. Brimming with Theroux's signature humor and wry observations, this engrossing chronicle is essential reading for both the ardent adventurer and the armchair traveler.
South Pacific Handbook
Author: David Stanley
Publisher: David Stanley
ISBN: 9781566911726
Category : Islands of the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Provides historical and travel information for visitors to Polynesia and Melanesia, including Cook Islands, Samoa, Fiji Islands, New Caledonia, and Solomon Islands
Publisher: David Stanley
ISBN: 9781566911726
Category : Islands of the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Provides historical and travel information for visitors to Polynesia and Melanesia, including Cook Islands, Samoa, Fiji Islands, New Caledonia, and Solomon Islands
Reimagining the American Pacific
Author: Rob Wilson
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822325239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Discusses the makings of the "American Pacific" locality/location/identity as space and ground of cultural production, and the way this region can be linked to "Asia" and "Pacific" as well as to "American mainland"
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822325239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Discusses the makings of the "American Pacific" locality/location/identity as space and ground of cultural production, and the way this region can be linked to "Asia" and "Pacific" as well as to "American mainland"
Tourists with Typewriters
Author: Patrick Holland
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472087068
Category : American prose literature
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Looks at how contemporary travel writing reflects gender, cultural history, and social class
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472087068
Category : American prose literature
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Looks at how contemporary travel writing reflects gender, cultural history, and social class