Fresh Air Fiend
Travel Writings, 1985-2000
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Format: Book
Description: ix, 466 pages ; 24 cm
A collection of essays and articles in which Paul Theroux reflects on his traveling experiences.
Contents:
Time travel (Memory and creation : the view from fifty -- The object of desire -- At the sharp end : being in the Peace Corps -- Five travel epiphanies -- Travel writing : the point of it) -- Fresh air fiend (Fresh air fiend -- The awkward question -- The moving target -- Dead reckoning to Nantucket -- Paddling to Plymouth -- Fever chart : parasites I have known) -- A sense of place (Diaries of two cities : Amsterdam and London -- Farewell to Britain : look thy last on all things lovely -- Gravy train : a private railway car -- The Maine woods : camping in the snow -- Trespassing in Florida -- Down the Zambezi -- The true size of Cape Cod -- German humor) -- China (Down the Yangtze -- Chinese miracles -- Ghost stories : a letter from Hong Kong on the eve of the hand-over).
The Pacific (Hawaii : The other Oahu; [and], On Molokai -- Connected in Palau -- Tasting the Pacific -- Palawan : up and down the creek -- Christmas Island : bombs and birds) -- Books of travel (My own (The edge of the great rift : three African novels. 'The black house'; 'The great railway bazaar'; 'The old Patagonian Express'; The making of 'The mosquito coast'; 'Kowloon Tong' -- Other people's ('Robinson Crusoe'; Thoreau's 'Cape Cod'; 'The secret agent : a dangerous Londoner' -- 'The worst journey in the world'; 'Racers to the pole'; 'PrairyErth'; 'Looking for a ship').
Escapes and exiles (Chatwin revisited -- Greeneland -- V.S. Pritchett : the foreigner as traveler -- William Simpson : artist and traveler -- Rajat Neogy : an Indian in Uganda -- The exile Moritz Thomsen) -- Fugues (Unspeakable rituals and outlandish beliefs -- Gilstrap, the homesick explorer -- The return of Bingo Humpage).
The Pacific (Hawaii : The other Oahu; [and], On Molokai -- Connected in Palau -- Tasting the Pacific -- Palawan : up and down the creek -- Christmas Island : bombs and birds) -- Books of travel (My own (The edge of the great rift : three African novels. 'The black house'; 'The great railway bazaar'; 'The old Patagonian Express'; The making of 'The mosquito coast'; 'Kowloon Tong' -- Other people's ('Robinson Crusoe'; Thoreau's 'Cape Cod'; 'The secret agent : a dangerous Londoner' -- 'The worst journey in the world'; 'Racers to the pole'; 'PrairyErth'; 'Looking for a ship').
Escapes and exiles (Chatwin revisited -- Greeneland -- V.S. Pritchett : the foreigner as traveler -- William Simpson : artist and traveler -- Rajat Neogy : an Indian in Uganda -- The exile Moritz Thomsen) -- Fugues (Unspeakable rituals and outlandish beliefs -- Gilstrap, the homesick explorer -- The return of Bingo Humpage).
ISBN:
0618034064
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-466).