Figures in a landscape : people and places : essays: 2001-2016 / Paul Theroux.
Material type: TextPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: xvii, 386 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780544870307
- 0544870301
- People and places : essays: 2001-2016
- Essays 2001-2016
- Paul Theroux essays 2001-2016
- Essays. Selections
- 814/.54 B 23
- PS3570.H4 A6 2018
- TRV010000 | BIO026000 | LCO010000
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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BOOK | Harrison Memorial Library NONFICTION | Adult Nonfiction | 814 THE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31624003728201 |
"An Eamon Dolan book."
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.
"A delectable collection of Theroux's recent writing on great places, people, and prose"-- Provided by publisher.
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