Trained for a life of travelMichele Hewitson writing in the NZ Herald Sep 13, 2008 reviews Paul Theroux's latest,
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
"I woke and yawned and, as always, took a vitamin pill and shaved with my battery-powered razor and brushed my teeth."
So writes Paul Theroux in a travel book which is the next volume of the autobiography he "will never write", but "once envisioned. As Pedro Almodovar once remarked, 'anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism'."
So writes Paul Theroux in a travel book which is the next volume of the autobiography he "will never write", but "once envisioned. As Pedro Almodovar once remarked, 'anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism'."
Thirty-three years ago an obviously much younger Theroux took a trip by train from London. He returned to his starting place four months later, having travelled on trains when there were trains, across India and South-East Asia, on the Trans-Siberian Express. He came home and wrote the Great Railway Bazaar, and became the greatest travel writer in the world.
Read Michele's full review here.
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