About Paul Theroux:
Paul Edward Theroux is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work of travel writing is perhaps The Great Railway Bazaar (1975). He has published numerous works of fiction, some of which were made into feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Mosquito Coast on which the 1986 movie is based.
There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.
Paul TherouxI'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.
Paul Theroux