Figures in a landscape : people and places : essays: 2001-2016
Record details
- ISBN: 0544870301
- ISBN: 9780544870307 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9780544870307 : HRD
- ISBN: 0544870301 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780544870307 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0544870301 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
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xvii, 386 pages ; 24 cm - Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
General Note: | "An Eamon Dolan book." |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: Study for figures in a landscape -- My drug tour: searching for ayahuasca -- Thoreau in the wilderness -- Liz in Neverland -- Greeneland -- Hunter in the kingdom of fear -- Conrad at sea -- Simenon's world -- Dr. Sacks, the healer -- Nurse Wolf, the hurter -- Robin Williams: "Who's he when he's at home?" -- Tea with Muriel Spark -- Mrs. Robinson revisited -- Talismans for our dreams -- The rock star's burden -- Living with geese -- Trespassing in Africa -- The seizures in Zimbabwe -- Stanley: the ultimate African explorer -- Paul Bowles: not a tourist -- Maugham: up and down in Asia -- English hours: nothing personal -- Traveling beyond Google -- Hawaii: islands upon islands -- Mockingbird in Monroeville -- Benton's America -- My life as a reader -- The real me: a memory -- Life and the magazine -- Dear old dad: memories of my father -- The trouble with autobiography. |
Summary, etc.: | "A delectable collection of Theroux's recent writing on great places, people, and prose"-- |
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Subject: | Theroux, Paul Theroux, Paul Travel Theroux, Paul Books and reading Authors, American 20th century Biography |
Genre: | Essays. Travel writing. |
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Killingly Library | 814.54 The (Text) | 34040143558696 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |