Taking the Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
AUGUST 12, 2009 WEDNESDAY AT 3PM CT

 
 
The decision to return to any early scene in your life is dangerous but irresistible, says Paul Theroux, who did just that, retracing steps he took decades ago when he wrote The Great Railway Bazaar, the book that is said to have reinvented travel writing. Along the way he confronts change on the other side of the world and in himself.

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  • Paul Theroux, author of Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
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