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Ghost train to the Eastern star : on the tracks of the great railway bazaar

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Description: In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux recreates an epic journey he took thirty years ago, a giant loop by train (mostly) through Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. In short, he traverses all of Asia top to bottom, and end to end. In the three decades since he first travelled this route, Asia has undergone phenomenal change. The Soviet Union has collapsed, China has risen, India booms, Burma slowly smothers, and Vietnam prospers despite the havoc unleashed upon it the last time Theroux passed through. He witnesses all this and more in a 25,000 mile journey, travelling as the locals do, by train, car, bus, and foot, providing his penetrating observations on the changes these countries have undergone.--From publisher description.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 2008.
Call number: 646332
Creator: Theroux, Paul(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 9780618418879; 0618418873
Provenance: Gift of Loren and Frances Rothschild, November 2016.
Dimensions: 24 cm
Associated people: Rothschild, Frances,; Rothschild, Loren,
Associated organization: Houghton Mifflin Company,
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