Ghost train to the Eastern star

Description

In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux recreates an epic journey he took thirty years ago, a giant loop by train (mostly) through Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. In short, he traverses all of Asia top to bottom, and end to end. In the three decades since he first travelled this route, Asia has undergone phenomenal change. The Soviet Union has collapsed, China has risen, India booms, Burma slowly smothers, and Vietnam prospers despite the havoc unleashed upon it the last time Theroux passed through. He witnesses all this and more in a 25,000 mile journey, travelling as the locals do, by train, car, bus, and foot, providing his penetrating observations on the changes these countries have undergone.--From publisher description.

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Other Editions

• Ghost train to the Eastern star: on the tracks of the great railway bazaarMariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt2009-01-01
• Ghost train to the Eastern StarMcClelland & Stewart2007-01-01
• Ghost Train to the Eastern StarPenguin Books, Limited2008-01-01
• Ghost train to the Eastern starHoughton Mifflin2008-01-01
• Ghost train to the Eastern starHoughton Mifflin2008-01-01
• Ghost Train to the Eastern StarAudio CDRandom House2008-04-02