Research Catalog

Title

The great railway bazaar : by train through Asia / Paul Theroux.

Author

Theroux, Paul

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.

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Details

Description

342 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

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. --From publisher's description.

Subject

• Theroux, Paul
• Railroads > Asia
• Asia > Description and travel

Genre/Form

• travelers’ writings.
• travelog (performed works genre)
• Travel writing
• Autobiographies
• Autobiographies.
• Récits de voyages.

Note

• "A Mariner book."
• Originally published: 1975.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The 15:30-London to Paris -- The Direct-Orient Express -- The Van Golu ("Lake Van") Express -- The Teheran Express -- The Night Mail to Meshed -- The Kyber Pass Local -- The Khyber Mail to Lahore Junction -- The Frontier Mail -- The Kalka Mail for Simla -- The Rajdhani ("Capital") Express to Bombay -- The Delhi Mail from Jaipur -- The Grand Trunk Express -- The Local Rameswaram -- The Talaimanner Mail -- The 16:25 from Galle -- The Howrah Mail -- The Mandalay Express -- The Local to Maymyo -- The Lashio Mail -- The Night Express from Nog Khai -- The International Express to Butterworth -- The Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur -- The North Star Night Express to Singapore -- The Saigon-Bien Hoa Passenger Train -- The Hue-Danag Passenger Train -- The Hatsukari ("Early Bird") Limited Express to Aomori -- The Ozora ("Big Sky") Limited Express to Sapporo -- The Hikari ("Sunbeam") Super Express to Kyoto -- The Kodama ("Echo") to Osaka -- The Trans-Siberian Express.

ISBN

• 0618658947 (pbk.) :
• 9780618658947

OCLC

77048482

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library