, that which I can not express in words and books
remember how I reached the bookstore in the Grand Bazaar Railroad. I remember when I lost in a book already on the shelves and księgarnianych later so as not to distract from the reading I sat on, chosen by the lady - that it should not distract from the reading - tea. Such a picture I remembered from the first contact with us. I remember how I got the perfect tea to the table - a spicy, seasoned, aromatic spices, so that no other more fit for the book Theroux could not. The author himself probably zasmakowałby in it, and even a book can be safely compared to the richly spiced tea. Wealth warming, oriental notes - yes, definitely fits the Grand Bazaar Railway !
I do not know what caused that I could not tear themselves away from reading? I sat there mesmerized, disregarding the przerzedzający the crowd read, read ... and only the imminent closure of cafes przegoniło me from it. Is this the tone in which it is written Grand Bazaar, which resembles a sedative sounds of a train, or whether her own wonderful story? Probably both, because both great content and its soothing effect on the reader's operating characteristics of a book by Paul Theroux can not refuse. There's something "soft" - light gray paper cover photo, elusive scent of travel - all made up the magical whole. In the story, from which it is impossible to tear yourself away.
The Grand Bazaar Rail, the thirty-something Paul Theroux describes his first trip to Asia. Not just any trip, I trip, which took place on the historic Orient Express is not a trivial matter. Today, it sounds like an abstraction, a magical way, because I travel quite low today, has the spontaneity and adventure. At a time when you can get on a plane and Asia find themselves on the same day, which exceeded the threshold of the house, trip Theroux acquires a special meaning. Even more important it becomes when a madcap journey to the temptation for a few months after the Asian trip - because after almost 40 years, it will never be the same. In the era of cell phones and the Internet, such separation from family and the world more civilized call it is nothing compared to what the survivor is a young writer (incidentally, paid a pretty high price for lack of contact with his wife and children).
Great Railway Bazaar. By train through Asia is not typical book Travel from which, as the author of blowing boredom. It is extremely interesting journey through the unknown and the unknown. This is not advertising the places visited by the author - no guide, which is often presented without foundation praises place. Although it can serve as a guide. It may also, or mainly serve as an inspiration for the trip. If you have not so far that took the author, though he has mobilized to the departure from home - into the unknown, and in interesting places, perhaps even unexplored.
If we were to determine the place in which the story unfolds, we would have to indicate - Despite the many interesting places to visit the author - a train compartment. I may not always be comfortable and safe car bedroom, air conditioned and with good food and clean toilets. Often these will be temporary trains, which run under the tracks farther Asia - with all the tabernacle, which travels with the natives, with their vices and customs. Without the ability to monitor the travel time, because of who made the complaint here is that the composition of a sudden stopped somewhere in the middle of nowhere? Without the ability to sleep and wash up. But always with a guaranteed unique adventure.
not know then [before a book] that travel articles written for newspapers formed the mutual benefit of those who hungered for pleasure journalists and advertising whizzes who care to mention deprecated about the advantages of a hotel or restaurant was in the press. Most of the travel texts that I knew, therefore, concerned the holidays and luxuries, and not the real experiences and the hardships of travel.
Now Should I write a few words about the book. However, as the task of which is doomed to failure? Because, as can be expressed in the written word delight and rapture which provided me with reading Grand Bazaar ... ? How to describe all the thrills that breathtaking and przyprawiały of chewing on your fingers? How finally to describe countless places that the author visited and read by him in this great travel books? Well, how?
It is like touching the life, being in the travel weariness, fear and longing. Catching the wind in its sails, each time when it ceases. Combining, the struggle against adversity and his own thoughts, which cast doubt on many times. With a force that in some magical way, however, pushes forward, despite the many hardships and setbacks. Dark nights, cold mornings and sometimes hungry days. Finally, concerns about themselves and their families, which has left up for so long at home.
Many moments pass him the reader will be able to cool off after this "journey" and if his nature is interesting, and he is hungry for more of it or let alone packing a backpack and boarded the train or before he does so read Paul Theroux sentimental return to the path of its maiden voyage.
ghost train to the Eastern Star a second book with writer-trip travel to Asia. Thirty-three years after the journey described in the Grand Bazaar it goes the same route. Just like the first trip departs from his home in London (this time, however, is confident that he will have nowhere to go back and to whom) and reducing flights goes on a journey in the footsteps of the young Paul. This time it's sentimental journey, a route which delimit the memories and the changes that have taken place in the world by More than thirty years. Some of the countries on the way to the Grand Bazaar this time the writer is forced to steer clear of - political regimes, wars and systems do not allow him to cross their borders, but this has not discouraged already experienced Theroux.
Although both of these books are still the same, however, easily Theroux noted changes that have taken place not only on the itinerary but in Theroux. Today - not so dashing, not so confident and yet more terrified in a difficult situation - a mature Theroux travels more consciously. ghost train ... it does not show the forces of passion in the background. Contemporary Theroux is a traveler who absorbs all the images every cell of his body, every sense and at the same time trying to understand them, remember, and not counted. Focused on the journey, not the truest traveler.
Loneliness, self-sufficiency and anonymity - that the necessary conditions for travel. A selection of the correct route, the best way to travel is, in my opinion, the surest way to gain experience. The journey requires a complete surrender, need to be immersed in it, must be conscious of a long journey into the depths of the country, not moving from place to place - something like that to me does not deserve even to be called a journey.
Although these words were written by Theroux on the occasion of the first part of his Asian trip - the Grand Bazaar Railway - it seems to be more fit for this senior Theroux, one who travels by train spectrum of the Star of the East ... .
Orient Express, Trans-Siberian Railway, sometimes plane, India, Turkey, China, the Soviet Union, Poland, Pamuk, Safak, Murakami and many other less famous people, which the author mentions the years - these are just some of the enjoyment that the reader will meet in a joint trip with the author of books. Dołóżmy to this wealth of information to enrich the knowledge of the author and our tastes, smells and habits, and you get an unforgettable adventure you can experience sitting in an armchair at home. Feel ersatz emotion, which provides nothing in the unbroken path unexplored. These two books are stories that reject selfishness and open horizons. Something very new, fresh, something that has not yet been in any other book of travels. Finally a book that inspires, and I'm still emotional about, as Children's fairy tale that my mother read to sleep, and who returns with extremely clear images every time you mention it.
As the author of two books did not like the fact that leaving the family for so long (travel), so and I do not like the fact that all of a sudden I have described them in 1200 words. Great Railway Bazaar and Celebrities Urge the specter of the East , as I wrote not so easy to describe, so maybe it would be better not to start, because what is these few sentences in the face of many months, so many adventures and impressions from reading books. I confess - no words can not describe what I felt when reading and I feel today, when I try to give you at least some of these impressions. I think that anyone who reaches the book by Paul Theroux check on that belief, and who have already read them confirm my words. Nothing is able to describe their reading experience. A multitude of words, obsession enthusiasm, excessive gestures, tears in his eyes and smile, smile nieschodzący - joy, as if the journey took place on yourself. Fabulous!
quotations are taken from books by Paul Theroux
