In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Paul Theroux retraces the steps he took thirty years ago in his classic The Great Railway Bazaar. From the Eurostar in London, he once again sets out on a journey to the East, travelling overland through Eastern Europe, India and Asia. Infused with the changes that have shaped the exterior landscape and enriched with developments to his own perceptions and psychology, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is an absorbing and beautifully written follow-up to The Great Railway Bazaar.
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Veteran travel writer Theroux travels from London across Russia to Asia. Again, much of this journey, includes several train-related mishaps, is in the footsteps of Fleming's 1930s journey in To Peking.
In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired his Chinese driver's license. For the next seven years, he traveled the country, tracking how the automobile and improved roads were transforming China.
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The New Yorker's China correspondent recounts various journeys across China he made in the course of his reporting and what they revealed about contemporary twenty first century China – still, the echoes back to the society and country Fleming encountered are often uncanny.
News from Tartary
A fascinating book about a style of travel that no longer exists. You should also read his companion's side of the story 'Forbidden Journey' by Ella Maillart. Her perspective on the journey is very different to Peter's and it's great to read them together –Customer Review
To Peking
Peter Fleming’s To Peking tells the story of a long journey, with much that is relevant for us to-day. From the Caucasus to Shanghai, via Tashkent, Irkutz and Valdivostok, Fleming sharpens his keen eye and caustic wit on bewitching places and a medley of colourful characters he encounters along the way. Written with the immediacy of a diary, this is not a journey the reader will easily forget." --John Hare, author of Mysteries of the Gobi.
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