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Reproduced with stunning fidelity, this album takes us across Asia, Oceania, the Americas, the Arabic Lands and Africa. The introduction by Paul Theroux, one of the greatest travel writers, demonstrates just why these ‘visions of the faraway and the fantastic’ continue to have such a powerful appeal to us all. This remarkable compilation is not only for those who enjoy(...)
Theory of Photography
April 2007, New York / London
Exotic postcards : the lure of distant lands
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Reproduced with stunning fidelity, this album takes us across Asia, Oceania, the Americas, the Arabic Lands and Africa. The introduction by Paul Theroux, one of the greatest travel writers, demonstrates just why these ‘visions of the faraway and the fantastic’ continue to have such a powerful appeal to us all. This remarkable compilation is not only for those who enjoy collecting postcards, but also for artists, historians, fashion and jewelry designers and anyone with a desire to travel and experience the exotic.
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First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains - the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the(...)
The great railway bazaar: by train through Asia
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First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains - the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-Siberian Express - are the stars of a journey that takes him on a loop eastbound from London's Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, then back from Japan on the Trans-Siberian.
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March 2006
Transportation, Tourism, Migration