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Author:

Theroux, Paul, author.

Title:

Figures in a landscape : people and places : essays: 2001-2016 / Paul Theroux.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xvii, 386 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Theroux, Paul.
Theroux, Paul--Travel.
Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
Essays.
Travel writing.

Other Titles:

Essays. Selections

Notes:

"An Eamon Dolan book."

Contents:

trouble with autobiography. 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 seizures 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.

ISBN:

0544870301
9780544870307

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1005795802

LCCN:

2017045486

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