Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
- ISBN-10
- 0547237936
- ISBN-13
- 9780547237930
- Series
- Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
- Category
- Travel
- Pages
- 496
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Paul Theroux
Description
The author revisits the past as he journeys through Eastern Europe, Central Asia, India, China, Japan, and Siberia on an adventure that reveals the dramatic changes that have occurred since the writing of his original travelogue.
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