Paul Theroux Libros Populares
Paul Theroux Biografía y Hechos
Paul Edward Theroux (10 de abril de 1941) es un escritor estadounidense, conocido por sus novelas y libros de viajes, aunque también ha destacado como novelista de ficción, y algunas de sus novelas, como La Costa de los Mosquitos, de 1981, han sido llevadas al cine.[1] En 1999 editó otra de sus obras cumbres, La sombra de Naipaul, la historia de su amistad con el premio Nobel de literatura Sir V. S. Naipaul.[2] Biografía Tras licenciarse en la universidad en 1963, viajó primero a Italia y después a África, donde ejerció la docencia en Malaui y Uganda. Más tarde, en 1968, lo haría en la Universidad Nacional de Singapur durante 3 años. A principios de los años setenta se estableció en Reino Unido, donde residiría durante diecisiete años. Actualmente vive en Estados Unidos, aunque continúa viajando por el mundo. Su trabajo más renombrado es El gran bazar del ferrocarril, de 1975,[3] un diario de viaje sobre una travesía en tren desde el Reino Unido hasta Japón de ida y vuelta atravesando Europa, Oriente Medio y el sur y el este de Asia hasta llegar al destino y volviendo a través de Rusia.[4] Sus experiencias de grandes viajes en los que recorre todo un continente aparecen relatadas en otras obras suyas: El viejo expreso de la Patagonia,[5] En el gallo de hierro,[6] Las islas felices de Oceanía,[7] y El safari de la estrella negra.[8] Obra (selección) Novelas San Jack (Saint Jack, 1973), trad. Manuel Sáenz de Heredia (Barcelona: Tusquets, 1985) El arsenal de la familia (The Family Arsenal, 1976), trad. Adolfo Martín (Barcelona: Plaza & Janés, 1979) La Costa de los Mosquitos (The Mosquito Coast, 1981), trad. Manuel Sáenz de Heredia (Barcelona: Tusquets, 1984) La calle de la Media Luna (Doctor Slaughter, 1984), trad. Iris Menéndez (Barcelona: Tusquets, 1986) Zona Exterior (O-Zone, 1986), trad. Iris Menéndez (Barcelona: Tusquets, 1988) Mi historia secreta (My Secret History, 1989), trad. Jordi Fibla (Barcelona: Tusquets, 1992) Chicago Loop (1990), trad. Daniel Iglesias Kennedy (Barcelona: Tusquets, 1991) Millroy, el mago (Millroy the Magician, 1993), trad. Jordi Fibla (Barcelona: Tusquets, 1995) Mi otra vida (My Other Life, 1996), trad. Diego Friera y María José Díez (Barcelona: Seix Barral, 2003) Kowloon Tong (1997), trad. Gemma Rovira (Barcelona: Edhasa, 1997) Hotel Honolulu (2001), trad. Diego Friera y María José Díez (Barcelona: Seix Barral, 2002) Elefanta Suite (The Elephanta Suite, 2007), trad. Miguel Martínez-Lage (Madrid: Alfaguara, 2008) Un crimen en Calcuta (A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta, 2009), trad. Miguel Martínez-Lage (Madrid: Alfaguara, 2011) En Lower River (The Lower River, 2012), trad. Ezequiel Martínez Llorente (Madrid: Alfaguara, 2014) Tierra madre (Mother Land, 2017), trad. Mariano Peyrou (Barcelona: Alfaguara, 2018) No ficción El gran bazar del ferrocarril: un viaje en tren por Turquía, Extremo Oriente y Siberia (The Great Railway Bazaar, 1975), trad. Juan Godó Costa (Barcelona: Alfaguara, 2018) El viejo expreso de la Patagonia: un viaje en tren por las Américas (The Old Patagonian Express, 1979), trad. Juan Gabriel López Guix (Barcelona: Ediciones B, 2000) En el gallo de hierro: viajes en tren por China (Riding the Iron Rooster, 1988), trad. Margarita Cavándoli (Barcelona: Ediciones B, 1997) Las islas felices de Oceanía: una odisea en kayak por el Pacífico (The Happy Isles Of Oceania, 1992), trad. Rosa Borrás (Barcelona: Ediciones B, 2002) Las columnas de Hércules: un viaje en torno al Mediterráneo (The Pillars of Hercules, 1995), trad. Alejandra Devoto (Barcelona: Ediciones B, 2003) La sombra de Naipaul (Sir Vidia's Shadow, 1998), trad. Carlos Abreu (Barcelona: Ediciones B, 2002) El safari de la estrella negra: desde El Cairo a Ciudad del Cabo (Dark Star Safari, 2002), trad. Mercè Diago y Abel Debritto (Barcelona: Ediciones B, 2003) Tren fantasma a la Estrella de Oriente: tras las huellas de «El gran bazar del ferrocarril» (Ghost Train To The Eastern Star, 2008), trad. Miguel Martínez-Lage (Barcelona: Alfaguara, 2010) El Tao del viajero: enseñanzas de vidas en la carretera (The Tao of Travel, 2011), trad. Ezequiel Martínez Llorente (Madrid: Alfaguara, 2012) El último tren a la zona verde: mi safari africano definitivo (The Last Train to Zona Verde, 2013), trad. María Luisa Rodríguez Tapia (Barcelona: Alfaguara, 2015) Notas y referencias Enlaces externos Página de Houghton Mifflin (en inglés). Descubre los libros populares de Paul Theroux. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Paul Theroux
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Lust, Caution
Eileen ChangIn 1940s Shanghai, beautiful young Jiazhi spends her days playing mahjong and drinking tea with high society ladies. But China is occupied by invading Japanese forces and things ar...
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El gran bazar del ferrocarril
Paul TherouxLa crónica de un viaje por Turquía, Extremo Oriente y Siberia, con el tren como lugar de encuentro, que inauguró un nuevo género de literatura de viajes.Desde niño, Paul Theroux no...
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Paul Theroux's Travels.
Queen's QuarterlyTOD HOFFMAN is a regular contributor to Queen's Quarterly. His next book, Homicide: Life on the Screen, will be released by ECW Press later this year. But I said, "People should be...
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Getting To Manana
Miranda InnesIn 1996, former Country Living garden editor Miranda Innes decided to change her life completely. Tired of urban living, bored of her career, out of love with her longstanding part...
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Slow Trains to Venice
Tom ChesshyreDo you love trains? Do you love adventure? If so, join Tom Chesshyre on his meandering rail journey across Europe from London to Venice.Escaping the rat race for a few happy weeks,...
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Will Storr Vs. The Supernatural
Will StorrWhen journalist and ghost sceptic Will Storr heads to Philadelphia to meet Lou Gentile, a demonologist, he expects a little fun with an amusing eccentric. What he gets are terrifyi...
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Of Empire
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon's landmark writings on subjects ranging from anger and ambition, marriage and money to envy and empire established him as the founding father of modern scientific thi...
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Paul Theroux's Travels.
Queen's QuarterlyTOD HOFFMAN is a regular contributor to Queen's Quarterly. His next book, Homicide: Life on the Screen, will be released by ECW Press later this year. But I said, "People should be...
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Behind The Wall
Colin ThubronA powerful unforgettable journey through China with one of our greatest travel writers.'An achievement of great and lasting brilliance' Patrick Leigh FermorHaving learned Mandarin,...
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La Vie
John Lewis-StempelAN INDIE BESTSELLER'It reminded me all over again of why I threw up everything for the magic of La Belle France' Carol Drinkwater, author of The Olive Farm'An utterly beguiling imm...
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To the Ends of the Earth
Paul Theroux“There are those who think that Paul Theroux is the finest travel writer working in English. This collection can only enhance that reputation.”The New York Times Book ReviewAuthor ...
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Another Day of Life
Ryszard Kapuściński & William Brand'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For mo...
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Cleopatra's Needle
Anne MustoeIt was a blustery April morning on the Thames Embankment in London when Anne Mustoe set out on a phenomenal lone cycle ride to the original site of Cleopatra's Needle at Heliopoli...
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Of Gifted Children and Gated Communities: Paul Theroux's O-Zone and Octavia Butler's the Parable of the Sower.
Utopian StudiesSkywalker began his life as a slave on Tatooine, cared for by his mother, Shmi Skywalker, and owned by a Toydarian spareparts dealer named Watto. It was obvious from the beginning ...
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Summary of Paul Theroux's The Last Train to Zona Verde
Everest MediaPlease note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I followed a group of huntergatherers around the world, and the best of them were...
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Paul Clifford
Edward Bulwer-Lytton'It was a dark and stormy night ...'Paul Clifford leads a double life. By day he is a fashionable man about town, the toast of genteel society. By night, he is 'Captain Lovett', a ...
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The Shell Country Alphabet
Geoffrey GrigsonIn the 1960s Geoffrey Grigson travelled around England writing the story of the secret landscape that is all around us, if only we take the time to look and see. The result is a bo...
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Alone
Pip GrangerThe only daughter of alcoholic parents, novelist Pip Granger spent much of her childhood outside looking in.No strangers to the demon booze, her parents were deeply involved in a p...
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El Tao del viajero
Paul TherouxEl libro ideal para preparar nuestros viajes: para disfrutarlos, comprenderlos y recordarlos.No puedes transitar el camino hasta que tú mismo te conviertes en el camino.Paul Therou...
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The Hugo Young Papers
Hugo Young & Ion TrewinHugo Young was one of Britain’s leading journalists for over thirty years, first on the Sunday Times, where he was political editor and deputy editor, and then as the Guardian’s se...
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Blinding Light
Paul TherouxSlade Steadman's lone opus, published twenty years ago, was Trespassing, a cult classic about his travels through dozens of countries without benefit of passport. With his soontobe...
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Toujours Provence
Peter MayleA second idyllic helping of rural life in France from the bestselling author of the classic A YEAR IN PROVENCE. Skulking through customs with a suitcase full of truffles, toads sin...
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The Silk Road: Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iran
Jonathan TuckerStretching from the ancient Chinese capital of Xian across the expanses of Central Asia to Rome, the Silk Road was, for 1,500 years, a vibrant network of arteries that carried the ...
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Between Extremes
Brian Keenan & John McCarthyIn 1986 Brian Keenan and John McCarthy were forced to take a journey without maps. For the next four years they were incarcerated in a Lebanese dungeon. From the blank outlook of a...
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Riding the Rails with Paul Theroux
Paul TherouxThe international bestselling author records his many insights and adventures traversing the world by train in these 3 classic travel memoirs. The Great Railway Bazaar In 197...
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Change Of Heart
Barbara AndersonOliver Gurth Perkins is seventyfive, and the darkest cloud on his horizon is that the local bookshop no longer stocks paperbacks of the Times cryptic crosswords. He has an easy com...
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Ripe for the Picking
Annie HawesDuring the course of Annie Hawes' new book, local culinary superstar, Ciccio, gradually takes over as Annie's constant companion. How irresistible is a man who first demonstrates h...
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The Line Becomes A River
Francisco CantuShortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2019, an electrifying memoir from a MexicanAmerican US Border Patrol guard‘Stunningly good… The best thing I’ve read for ages...
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I am a Chechen!
German Sadulaev & Anna GuninI Am a Chechen! offers a lyrical fusion of exotic legends, stories and memories of Chechnya: a land of wondrous beauty, site of genocides past and present, and the author's ancestr...
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Mother Land
Paul Theroux“Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humor.” Stephen King, New York Times Book Review To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, an...
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Slow Trains to Istanbul
Tom Chesshyre"Tom Chesshyre is the consummate traveller, who makes you want to experience all his adventures and mishaps for yourself." Christian Wolmar, author of British Rail: The Making and...
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The Spanish Civil War
Hugh ThomasThough more than half a century has passed since the Spaish Civil War began in 1936, it is still the subject of intense controversy. What was it that roused left wing sympathisers ...
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Robbie Coltrane's B-Road Britain
Robbie ColtraneTired of the endless tarmac and Little Chefs, and keen to see more on his travels than the taillights of the car in front of him, Robbie Coltrane has set himself quite a challenge....
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An Embarrassment Of Mangoes
Ann VanderhoofWho hasn't fantasized about leaving their job, saying goodbye to the rat race and escaping to some exotic destination in search of sun, sand, and a different way of life? Ann Vande...
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The Worst Journey in the World
Apsley Cherry-GarrardOne of the world's greatest works of travel and adventure writing, reissued on its 100th birthday.This is a gripping account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. Apsley Cherry...
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Essential Novelists - Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe & August NemoWelcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most ...
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The Birds Have Also Gone
Yashar KemalThere is an ancient Turkish tradition which promises a place in paradise to anyone who sets a small bird free. Three boys start up a birdcatching business to enable people to free ...
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Summary of Paul Theroux's The Great Railway Bazaar
Everest MediaPlease note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I wanted to travel by train from London to Tokyo. I found passengers who were wi...
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It's Not About The Tapas
Polly EvansAfter working for four years at a leading London book publisher, Polly Evans moved to Hong Kong where she spent many happy hours as a senior editor on the city's biggest entertainm...
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Two Wheels In The Dust
Anne MustoeIndia is no place for the fainthearted cyclist. The streets are jammed with cars, busses, rickshaws, animals, fortunetellers, barbers, beggars and people sleeping or cooking. Follo...
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The Lost Heart of Asia
Colin ThubronDiscover Colin Thubron's journey through central asia in the wake of the fall of the iron curtain.Thubron travelled throughout Central Asia in the wake of the breakup of the Soviet...
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Monsters of River and Rock
Adrian SmithUpdated for paperback with a brand new chapter on Parrot Cay Island. Legendary Iron Maiden guitarist takes you to the final frontier of fishing. Welcome to the world of Adrian Sm...
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The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles'The Sheltering Sky is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; somewhere where, curiously, they are never alone' Michael Hoffman.Port and Kit Moresbury, a sophisticated ...
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In Search Of a Character
Graham GreeneTo Graham Greene, 'Africa will always be the Africa of the Victorian atlas, the blank unexplored continent the shape of the human heart.' IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER contains ...
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The Elusive Truffle: Travels In Search Of The Legendary Food Of France
Mirabel OslerIn years gone by, the traveller in France could rely on coming across a restaurant where the tables were readylaid with heavy cotton napkins, a carafe of wine and a basket of fresh...
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The Pursuit of Happiness
Ruth Whippman'Essential reading. So funny, so relevant, so fascinating ... I loved it' Marian Keyes'A whipsharp British Bill Bryson' Sunday Times'Ruth Whippman is my new favorite cultural criti...
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The World Walk
Tom Turcich28,000 miles. 6 continents. 38 countries. A grand meditation, one step at a time. The World Walk is the invigorating true story of a man who circled the globe on foot. After t...
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Medieval Writings on Secular Women
Penguin Books Ltd'Woman, who is equal to the moon in the flower of youth,Is equal to a little old ape after the onset of old age'This remarkable collection brings together a host of writings from a...
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You Can't Hide the Sun
John McCarthy“Fascinating and timely” Jeremy BowenHeld hostage for many years by terrorists in Lebanon, John McCarthy is all too familiar with the pain and injustice of being denied your home. ...
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Faulks on Fiction (Includes 3 Vintage Classics): Great British Snobs and the Secret Life of the Novel
Sebastian FaulksThe publication of Robinson Crusoe in London in 1719 marked the arrival of a revolutionary art form: the novel. British writers were prominent in shaping the new type of storytelli...
