The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux

The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux

In 1973 Theroux left London on the Orient Express and kept going — through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan's borders, Pakistan, India, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam during the war, Japan, and home across Russia on the Trans-Siberian.

He is not interested in monuments. The book is almost entirely conversations with the people in his compartment, and he is frequently unkind about them, which is why it works — it reads as reported rather than curated. The Indian sections and the Vietnam railway are the strongest, and Siberia at the end is genuinely desolate.

The book that revived travel writing as a literary form. A classic of the genre.

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