Acclaimed travel writer and novelist Theroux hasn’t lost his affection for trains, but his view of the scenery outside has darkened in his latest odyssey. Reprising the itinerary of his 1973 The Great ...

"Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar," by Paul Theroux; Houghton Mifflin ($28) In 1975 Paul Theroux published a travel book, "The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train ...

Grouchy armchair travelers, rejoice: Paul Theroux has written another travel book. And he's as cranky as ever. Theroux first wrote about Eurasian rail travel 33 years ago in "The Great Railway Bazaar, ...

In 1973, Paul Theroux was down on his luck. As he says in his revealingly autobiographical new travel book, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, his early life had been full of humiliation and failure, ...