The Great Railway Bazaar

By Train Through Asia

Paul Theroux

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Year: 2006
• eBook ISBN:
  9780547525150
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies

The acclaimed author recounts his epic journey across Europe and Asia in this international bestselling classic of travel literature: "Compulsive reading" (Graham Greene).
 
In 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on a four-month journey by train from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. In The Great Railway Bazaar, he records in vivid detail and penetrating insight the many fascinating incidents, adventures, and encounters of his grand, intercontinental 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 Theroux on a loop eastbound from London's Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, then back from Japan on the Trans-Siberian. Brimming with Theroux's signature humor and wry observations, this engrossing chronicle is essential reading for both the ardent adventurer and the armchair traveler.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• The 15:30—London to Paris
• The Direct-Orient Express
• The Van Gölü (“Lake Van”) Express
• The Teheran Express
• The Night Mail to Meshed
• The Khyber 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 to Rameswaram
• The Talaimannar Mail
• The 16:25 from Galle
• The Howrah Mail
• The Mandalay Express
• The Local to Maymyo
• The Lashio Mail
• The Night Express from Nong 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 Hué-Danang 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
• Sample Chapter from THE LAST TRAIN TO ZONA VERDE
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• About the Author
• Footnotes