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Figures in a landscape : people and places : essays: 2001-2016
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Figures in a landscape : people and places : essays: 2001-2016 / Paul Theroux.
ISBN
9780544870307
0544870301
Publication
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
xvii, 386 pages ; 24 cm
Notes
"An Eamon Dolan book."
Summary
"A delectable collection of Theroux's recent writing on great places, people, and prose"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
People and places : essays: 2001-2016
Essays 2001-2016
Paul Theroux essays 2001-2016
Other formats
Online version: Theroux, Paul author. Figures in a landscape. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 25, 2018
Contents
Introduction: Study for figures in a landscape
My drug tour: searching for ayahuasca
Thoreau in the wilderness
Liz in Neverland
Greeneland
Hunter in the kingdom of fear
Conrad at sea
Simenon's world
Dr. Sacks, the healer
Nurse Wolf, the hurter
Robin Williams: "Who's he when he's at home?"
Tea with Muriel Spark
Mrs. Robinson revisited
Talismans for our dreams
The rock star's burden
Living with geese
Trespassing in Africa
The seizures in Zimbabwe
Stanley: the ultimate African explorer
Paul Bowles: not a tourist
Maugham: up and down in Asia
English hours: nothing personal
Traveling beyond Google
Hawaii: islands upon islands
Mockingbird in Monroeville
Benton's America
My life as a reader
The real me: a memory
Life and the magazine
Dear old dad: memories of my father
The trouble with autobiography.
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