The pillars of Hercules

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In this modern version of the Grand Tour, Paul Theroux sets off from Gibraltar, one of the Pillars of Hercules, around the . Mediterranean to his destination, the southern pillar. No stranger to discomfort, he eschewed the easy route across the straits, choosing to travel the long way, up the coast of Spain, along the Riviera, and by ferry to Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily and beyond - way beyond, avoiding the crossfire of Croatia, through the near-anarchy of Albania and on to a ship through the Levant with a hundred Turks.
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Away from the tourist beaches, Theroux discovers a coastline as wild in places as anything he encountered in China or Peru. He unveils another Mediterranean, that of low-season depression, of urban sprawl, of seldom-visited, unchanged places such as the antique southern Italian village of t^- Aliano, the setting of Carlo Levi's Christ Stopped at Eboli. In his search for the essence of Mediterranean life, Paul Theroux seeks out the best of the regions,... Tovább

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In this modern version of the Grand Tour, Paul Theroux sets off from Gibraltar, one of the Pillars of Hercules, around the . Mediterranean to his destination, the southern pillar. No stranger to discomfort, he eschewed the easy route across the straits, choosing to travel the long way, up the coast of Spain, along the Riviera, and by ferry to Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily and beyond - way beyond, avoiding the crossfire of Croatia, through the near-anarchy of Albania and on to a ship through the Levant with a hundred Turks.
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Away from the tourist beaches, Theroux discovers a coastline as wild in places as anything he encountered in China or Peru. He unveils another Mediterranean, that of low-season depression, of urban sprawl, of seldom-visited, unchanged places such as the antique southern Italian village of t^- Aliano, the setting of Carlo Levi's Christ Stopped at Eboli. In his search for the essence of Mediterranean life, Paul Theroux seeks out the best of the regions, taking in bullfights, symphony concerts, football games and remote islands of unique beauty.
The Pillars of Hercules recounts a long, lively, often hilarious trip, some of it in search of Evelyn Waugh's Labels, Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night, and the landmarks of The Odyssey. It is a travel book in a great tradition written with Paul Theroux's unmatched originality and style.
Paul Theroux is the author of many highly acclaimed travel books including Riding the Iron Rooster, The Old Patagonian Express, The Great Railivay Bazaar and, most recently. The Happy Isles of Oceania. His fiction includes The Mosquito Coast, My Secret History, Picture Palace, World's End, O-Zone and Millroy the Magician. He divides his time between Boston and Hawaii. Vissza