The Great Railway Bazaar
Series: Penguin Modern ClassicsPublication details: England; Penguin; 2008Description: 379 Pages; PaperbackISBN:- 9780141189147
- 915.04
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 | Karachi In Store | 915.04 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Withdrawn | Book Bazaar | PKLC021231 | ||
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 | Lahore Travel | 915.04 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | PKLC021205 |
"The Orient Express; The Khyber Pass Local; the Delhi Mail from Jaipur; the Golden Arrow of Kuala; the Trans-Siberian Express; these are just some of the trains steaming through Paul Theroux's epic rail journey from London across Europe through India and Asia. This was a trip of discovery made in the mid-seventies, a time before the West had embraced the places, peoples, food, faiths and cultures of the East. For us now, as much as for Theroux then, to visit the lands of The Great Railway Bazaar is an encounter with all that is truly foreign and exotic - and with what we have since lost"--Amazon.co.uk.
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