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Title	:	The Great Railway Bazaar
Author	:	Paul Theroux
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 342 pages
Published	:	June 1st 2006 by Mariner Books (first published 1975)
Categories	:	Travel. Nonfiction. Cultural. Asia. Autobiography. Memoir

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First published in 1975, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental 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 him 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 keen observations, this engrossing chronicle is essential reading for both the ardent adventurer and the armchair traveler.

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Original Title:	The Great Railway Bazaar
ISBN:	0618658947 (ISBN13: 9780618658947)
Edition Language:	English

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I have read this book a few times over the years. I really enjoyed it.The book is set in the early 70s. It is the story of Therouxs lone journey from London, across Europe and through Asia, by trains. I love train travel so this story really appealed to me. It focuses on the trains, the passengers, and the unusual people he encounters at different stations. Its a very engaging story. Theroux is giving talks in a number of cities that he visits during his travels, which is alluded to. He has

I am half way down the book and am deeply disappointed. Mr Theroux's attitude towards people and his fellow travellers is that of disdain and contempt. He makes generalised statements about tamils, sinhalese,bengalis, burmese etc and seems to reinforce stereotypes If its meant to spark humour I am sorry i feel he fails to do so for me and is in bad taste. He seems to view things from a higher pedestal, he seems to disdain and avoid company an impossibility for a traveller in Asia especially SE

Ive been hearing about Theroux for years and yet had never read one of books. The idea of reading about a man journeying alone was something I couldnt quite settle to. Would it be tedious and repetitious? Perhaps itd be like delving into one of those dry guidebooks weve all taken with us to a foreign city lots of information but very little pleasure? In the end curiosity got the better of me and I grabbed an audio copy of perhaps his best known book.Set in 1973 (but released in 1975) it tells



Superb. Cannot praise it enough. Go read it!

Theroux, Trains and white male shitfuckery Ive never read Paul Theroux before. Ive heard of him. Everyone has heard of him. He is one of the most famous authors of his time, and my dushenka is also quite fond of him. I didnt know that though. I picked this book up because it was a story of a person who had traveled across several countries on trains. I love trains. Ive spent my whole life on trains, and am often heard bragging about how Ive traveled in every single coach of an Indian train,

This is perhaps the dullest travelogue that I've ever read. Imagine cruising from London through Paris, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Japan, Siberia and back to London on nothing but trains for commute - long journeys punctuated with local food, local people, local culture and local weather - only to be bored to death while Theroux keeps on heaping loads of details without any insight save some common (sometimes aptly true) stereotypes.Terse, dry and disinterested in