Paul Theroux's train journey through Asia

The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia is a travelogue by American novelist Paul Theroux, first published in 1975, recounting his four-month train journey in 1973 from London through Europe, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, and his return via the Trans-Siberian Railway.

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   227TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY JOURNAL, VOL.: 32, NO.: 1, JUNE. 2018 · nepjol.info · 17 min read

   Paul Theroux's journey covered the major rail routes available in the 1970s across Europe and Asia, traveling almost fifteen thousand miles by thirty trains. He used buses and aeroplanes only occasionally, in case there were no train routes.

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   Paul Theroux's four-month train journey from London through Asia to Japan · Wikipedia · 2 min read

   Paul Theroux's four-month train journey from London through Europe, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, with a return via the Trans-Siberian Railway, began with a route to India that followed what was then known as the hippie trail.

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   The Great Railway Bazaar · Bookshop.org

   The Great Railway Bazaar is a book by Paul Theroux. In 2006, Theroux retraced the journey in a sequel, finding that people and places had changed, and that while his earlier work was known in many places, he was not recognised in person.

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