Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of The Great Railway Bazaar

A brilliant eye, readable and vivid. Theroux has still got it ObserverA dazzler, giving us the highs and lows of his journey and tenderness and acerbic humour . . . fellow-travelling weirdoes, amateur taxi drivers, bar-girls and long-suffering locals are brought vividly to life Spectator Thirty years ago Paul Theroux left London and travelled across Asia and back again by train. His account of the journey - The Great Railway Bazaar - was a landmark book and made his name as the foremost travel writer of his generation. Now Theroux makes the trip all over again. Through Eastern Europe, India and Asia to discover the changes that have swept the continents, and also to learn what an old man will make of a young mans journey. Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is a brilliant chronicle of change and an exploration of how travel is the saddest of pleasures. Fans of Theroux are not likely to be disappointed. Theroux has great descriptive skill . . . the world is slightly less unknown by virtue of reading the book Sunday Telegraph Relaxed, curious, confident, surprisingly tender. Therouxs writing has an immediate, vivid and cursory quality that gives it a collective strength Sunday Times Fascinating, a joy to read Tatler