Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
On the Tracks of 'The Great Railway Bazaar'. An unmitigated treat for the hundreds of thousands of fans of the first Bazaar. In The New Railway Bazaar, 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. His odyssey takes him from Eastern Europe, still hungover from Communism, through tense but thriving Turkey, into the Caucasus, where Georgia limps back toward feudalism...Author: Theroux Paul
Year of publication: 2010
Genre: Travel and geography
Number of pages: 619
Reading time: 10 h. 19 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
