Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux is an American novelist and travel writer known for influential travelogues such as The Great Railway Bazaar and for novels including The Mosquito Coast. His work often blends keen observation, personal experience, and explorations of culture, displacement, and travel.
novel
travel literature
short stories
nonfiction
A Dead Hand: a Crime in Calcutta
Mother Land
The Best American Travel Writing 2001
Picture Palace: A Novel
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
Sunrise with Seamonsters
Kowloon Tong: A Novel of Hong Kong
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
The Mosquito Coast
The Best American Travel Writing 2014
The Mosquito Coast
Under The Wave At Waimea
The Great Railway Bazaar
The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels & Discoveries, 1964-1984
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
Pillars of Hercules
The Elephanta Suite
To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux
Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
My Secret History
Mr. Bones: Twenty Stories