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Paul Theroux was born and educated in the United States. After graduating from university in 1963, he travelled first to Italy and then to Africa, where he worked as a Peace Corps teacher at a bush school in Malawi, and as a lecturer at Makerere University in Uganda. In 1968 he joined the University of Singapore and taught in the Department of English for three years. Throughout this time he was publishing short stories and journalism, and wrote a number of novels. Among these were Fong and the Indians, Girls at Play and Jungle Lovers, all of which appear in one volume, On the Edge of the Great Rift (Penguin, 1996). In the early 1970s Paul Theroux moved with his wife and two children to Dorset, where he wrote Saint Jack, and then on to London. He was a resident in Britain for a total of seventeen years. In this time he wrote a dozen volumes of highly praised fiction and a number of successful travel books, from which a selection of writings were taken to compile his book Travelling the World (Penguin, 1992). Paul Theroux has now returned to the United States, but he continues to travel widely. Paul Theroux's many books include Picture Palace, which won the 1978 Whitbread Literary Award; The Mosquito Coast, which was the 1981 Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year and joint winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was also made into a feature film; Riding the Iron Rooster, which won the 1988 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; The Pillars of Hercules, shortlisted for the 1996 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; My Other Life: A Novel, Kowloon Tong, Sir Vidia's Shadow, Fresh-air Fiend and Hotel Honolulu. Blindness is his latest novel. Most of his books are published by Penguin.

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

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The Great Railway Bazaar

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins

Release date: 07-10-10

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 258 ratings
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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 24 hrs and 55 mins

Release date: 06-03-09

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
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Figures in a Landscape

People and Places

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins

Release date: 07-06-18

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
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On the Plain of Snakes

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: Joseph Balderrama

Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins

Release date: 24-10-19

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
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The Old Patagonian Express

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins

Release date: 04-09-17

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
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Mother Land

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 23 hrs and 19 mins

Release date: 02-11-17

Language: English

4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
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The Mosquito Coast

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins

Release date: 18-03-11

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
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The Vanishing Point

By: Paul Theroux

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Release date: 13-02-25

Language: English

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Burma Sahib

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: Charlie Anson

Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins

Release date: 22-02-24

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
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Deep South

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 23 hrs and 35 mins

Release date: 11-09-15

Language: English

4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
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The Last Train to Zona Verde

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins

Release date: 06-06-13

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
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Kingdom by the Sea

A Journey Around the Coast of Britian

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: Ron Keith

Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins

Release date: 27-10-08

Language: English

4 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
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Hotel Honolulu

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins

Release date: 07-07-16

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
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Under the Wave at Waimea

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 18 hrs and 20 mins

Release date: 22-04-21

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
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The Bad Angel Brothers

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: Joe Knezevich

Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins

Release date: 22-09-22

Language: English

3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
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The Lower River

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins

Release date: 23-08-12

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
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The Elephanta Suite

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: Firdous Bamji

Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins

Release date: 04-08-16

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
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El viejo expreso de la Patagonia [The Old Patagonian Express]

Un viaje en tren por las Américas [A Train Trip Through the Americas]

By: Paul Theroux, Juan Gabriel López Guix - translator

Narrated by: Diego Rousselon

Length: 17 hrs and 39 mins

Release date: 29-09-22

Language: Spanish

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A Dead Hand

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins

Release date: 01-08-10

Language: English

3 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
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Mr Bones

Twenty Stories

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: Garrick Hagon, Jennifer Woodward, Vince Pirillo, Tim Flavin

Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins

Release date: 01-01-15

Language: English

3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
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