Figures in a landscape : people and places : essays: 2001-2016
(2018)
By:
Theroux, Paul
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
814.54/THEROUX,P
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018
©2018
©2018
DESCRIPTION
xvii, 386 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780544870307, 0544870301 :, 0544870301, 9780544870307
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"An Eamon Dolan book."
"A delectable collection of Theroux's recent writing on great places, people, and prose"--
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 --
Rock star's burden --
Living with geese --
Trespassing in Africa --
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 --
Real me: a memory --
Life and the magazine --
Dear old dad: memories of my father --
Trouble with autobiography