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Figures in a landscape : people and places : essays: 2001-2016
- Title
- Figures in a landscape : people and places : essays: 2001-2016 / Paul Theroux.
- Author
- Theroux, Paul
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 386 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "A delectable collection of Theroux's recent writing on great places, people, and prose"--
- Uniform Title
- Essays. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Essays.
- People and places : essays: 2001-2016
- Essays 2001-2016
- Paul Theroux essays 2001-2016
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Essays.
- Travel writing.
- Note
- "An Eamon Dolan book."
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-4156
- ISBN
- 9780544870307
- 0544870301
- LCCN
- 2017045486
- OCLC
- 1005795802
- Author
- Theroux, Paul, author.
- Title
- Figures in a landscape : people and places : essays: 2001-2016 / Paul Theroux.
- Publisher
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Theroux, Paul author. Figures in a landscape. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018 9780544866669 (DLC) 2017048160
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-4156