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Please go to Paul Theroux.com's new site, Paul TherouxFree Computer Help Forum In this remarkable collection of
essays and articles written over the last fifteen years, Paul Theroux
demonstrates how the traveling life are intimately connected. Not
simply an escape from the mundane, travel has always been a creative
act for Theroux. His journeys in remote hinterlands and crowded
foreign capitals provide the neccesary perspective to "become a
stranger" in order to discover the self.
Wonderfuly broad in scope,
thought, and feeling, Fresh Air Fiend touches down on five
continents and floats through most of the seas in between. From the
crisp quiet of a solitary week spent in the snowbound Maine woods, to
the expectant chaos of Hong Kong on the eve of the Hand-over, to a
small pacific island where atomic bombs were detonated, Theroux is the
perfect guide -- casually informative, keenly observant, wry and
entertaining. As Time has written, Theroux "serves as both the
camera and the eye, and both the details and the illusions are
developed with brilliance." He also reaches back into Africa as a
Peace Corps volunteer, treats us to insightful readings of his
favorite travel books, and reveals the fascinating stories behind some
of his own.
Fresh Air Fiend
is a companion volume to Theroux's earlier, much loved Sunrise with
Seamonsters, but this is his first collection devoted completely
to travel writing, for which the author of such classics as The
Great Railway Bazaar and Riding The Iron Rooster is justly
famous.
Travelling with Theroux is a
literary adventure of the first order, never a languid luxury cruise,
always an insightful journey into the heart and soul of a place and
its people. Fresh Air Fiend is the ultimate good read for
anyone fascinated by travel in the wider world or curious about the
life of one of our more passionate travelers. |
