Sunrise with SeamonstersHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 1986 - 384 Seiten The journeys of Paul Theroux take place not only in exotic, unexpected places of the world but in the thoughts, reading, and emotions of the writer himself. A gathering of people, places, and ideas in fifty glittering pieces of gold. |
Inhalt
Introduction I | 1 |
The Cerebral Snapshot 1965 | 15 |
Tarzan is an Expatriate 1967 | 31 |
Seven Burmese Days 1970 | 48 |
The Killing of Hastings Banda 1971 | 63 |
Lord of the Ring 1971 | 76 |
S Naipaul 1971 and 1982 | 91 |
Malaysia 1973 | 106 |
The Orient Express 1978 | 182 |
High School Reunion 1979 | 185 |
John McEnroe Jr 1979 | 206 |
The Past Recaptured 1980 | 229 |
Easy Money Patronage 1981 | 259 |
Mapping the World 1981 | 278 |
Summertime on the Cape 1981 | 297 |
Making Tracks to Chittagong 1983 | 313 |
The Night Ferry to Paris 1975 | 123 |
An English Visitor 1976 | 136 |
Homage to Mrs Robinson 1977 | 152 |
A Circuit of Corsica 1977 | 166 |
Introducing Jungle Lovers 1984 | 328 |
Sunrise with Seamonsters 1984 | 346 |
Afterword | 363 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Afghanistan Africa American asked Barbara beach boat Burgois Burmese called Cape Chinese curfew dark Dr Banda drink Dunquin England English exotic expatriate face father feeling feet fiction girl Graham Harbor Hastings Banda Herat India Indian island James journey jungle Kabul Kampala Kipling knew laughed literary live London look Lopez Maisie Malawi Mandalay McEnroe miles Mimic Men Naipaul never night Nixon novel novelist passengers patron patronage PAUL THEROUX Peace Corps person photographs play political Pritchett railway road rowing Rudyard Kipling seems Simla Singapore someone station story subway Swahili talk Tarzan tell thing thought told took town train trip Uganda V. S. Naipaul Varanasi walked wind woman wonder word writing wrote York