The Pillars Of Hercules - A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean Paperback - 1996
by Theroux, Paul
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The bestselling travel writer and novelist now takes us on a magical tour of the Mediterranean. Theroux's other bestselling travel books include The Great Railway Bazaar, Riding the Iron Rooster, and The Happy Isles of Oceana.
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Details
- Title The Pillars Of Hercules - A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean
- Author Theroux, Paul
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Pbk Edition
- Condition Used - Fine
- Pages 528
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Fawcett Columbinr, New York
- Date 1996
- Features Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # 041341
- ISBN 9780449910856 / 0449910857
- Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.4 x 1.1 in (20.32 x 13.72 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Library of Congress subjects Mediterranean Region - Description and travel
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96096586
- Dewey Decimal Code 910.918
From the jacket flap
--Time
"[THEROUX'S] WORK IS DISTINGUISHED BY A SPLENDID EYE FOR DETAIL AND THE TELLING GESTURE; a storyteller's sense of pacing and gift for granting closure to the most subtle progression of events; and the graceful use of language. . . . We are delighted, along with Theroux, by the politeness of the Turks, amazed by the mountainous highlands in Syria, touched by the gesture of an Albanian waitress who will not let him pay for his modest meal. . . . The Pillars of Hercules [is] engrossing and enlightening from start (a damning account of tourists annoying the apes of Gibraltar) to finish (an utterly captivating visit with Paul Bowles in Tangier, worth the price of the book all by itself)."
--Chicago Tribune
"ENTERTAINING READING . . . WHEN YOU READ THEROUX, YOU'RE TRULY ON A TRIP."
--The Boston Sunday Globe
"HIS PICARESQUE NARRATIVE IS STUDDED WITH SCENES THAT STICK IN THE MIND. He looks at strangers with a novelist's eye, and his portraits are pleasantly tinged with malice."
--The Washington Post Book World
"THEROUX AT HIS BEST . . . An armchair trip with Theroux is sometimes dark, but always a delight."
--Playboy
"AS SATISFYING AS A GLASS OF COOL WINE ON A DUSTY CALABRIAN AFTERNOON . . . With his effortless writing style, observant eye, and take-no-prisoners approach, Theroux is in top form chronicling this 18-month circuit of the Mediterranean."
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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Citations
- New York Times, 01/26/1997, Page 28
