Description
Paul Theroux—the master of literary travel writing—delivers another morally serious, beautifully written exploration of a world that conventional travel journalism doesn't reach, examining through his characteristic combination of personal encounter and historical reflection the specific realities of a place and its people with the authority and the genuine curiosity that have made him one of the genre's supreme practitioners. Written with the prose quality and the willingness to say uncomfortable things that have always distinguished his travel writing from the merely observational, this is essential reading for every admirer of Theroux and every lover of travel literature that takes its subject completely seriously. An essential addition.
