As a self-confessed air fiend, Paul Theroux has travelled more widely than even his travel books suggest - and he takes pleasure in roughing it. In this collection of Theroux's shorter travel writings, he writes of sweat shops in Dongguan, massage parlours in Kowloon, jellyfish in Palau and bomb craters on Christmas Island. He visits the King of the Lozis at a bend in the Zambezi river, and the precious Stone Castle on the Yangtze. He explores the remote island of Palawan in the Philippines, crosses the States in a private railway car, and camps in the snow in the woods of Maine.
- ISBN10 1299882994
- ISBN13 9781299882997
- Publish Date 1 January 2001 (first published 24 February 2000)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 April 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Mariner Books
- Format eBook
- Language English