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Two young Americans are thwarted in their attempts to bring their rational life style to a small East African nation
Hardcover:
9780395255018 | Houghton Mifflin, June 1, 1968, cover price $9.95
Paperback:
9780804105194 | Reprint edition (Ivy Books, August 1, 1989), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Two young Americans are thwarted in their attempts to bring their rational life style to a small East African nation
Hardcover:
9780395121078 | Houghton Mifflin, June 1, 1971, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: When one of his African clients dies before signing an insurance policy, Calvin Mullet forges his name and then begins writing a fictitious diary for the deceased
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9780804105187 | Reissue edition (Ivy Books, December 1, 1989), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: When one of his African clients dies before signing an insurance policy, Calvin Mullet forges his name and then begins writing a fictitious diary for the deceased
Hardcover:
9780395255025 | Houghton Mifflin, June 1, 1972, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Book by Theroux, Paul
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9780395139967 | Houghton Mifflin, July 1, 1972, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The author records his view of life and human relationships in this selection of stories set in various parts of the world
Paperback:
9780804105170 | Reprint edition (Ivy Books, June 1, 1990), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: The author records his view of life and human relationships in this selection of stories set in various parts of the world
Hardcover:
9780395171189 | Houghton Mifflin, June 1, 1973, cover price $14.95
Hardcover:
9780395194003 | Houghton Mifflin, August 1, 1974, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: An anthropologist and his wife return from Africa to an English country house that is haunted by the spirit of a woman
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9780140087925 | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, April 1, 1996), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A reign of terror begins for Alfred and Emma Munday when they take their failing marriage to the solace of an old country house.
9780671498238 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, July 1, 1984), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: A mysterious, sensual presence that pervades their rented English village house threatens the marriage of anthropologist Alfred Munday, after he and his wife return from ten years in the African jungle
Hardcover:
9780395207086 | Houghton Mifflin, August 1, 1975, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The American novelist's account of the landscapes, characters, mishaps, and adventures encountered on his grand railroad excursion from London to Tokyo and back again on such classics as the Orient, Mandalay, and Trans-Siberian Expresses
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9780140249804 | Penguin USA, October 1, 1995, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The author relates an account of the landscapes, characters, mishaps, and adventures he encountered on his grand railroad excursion from London to Tokyo and back again on such classics as the Orient, Mandalay, and Trans-Siberian Expresses
9780671726485 | Reissue edition (Washington Square Pr, April 1, 1992), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: In this unique and luminous work that spent two months on The New York Times bestseller list, award-winning author and railroad-lover Paul Theroux takes us aboard the world's greatest trains -- the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Golden Arrow, the Mandalay Express -- on an odyssey from London through Europe and Asia, across the frozen vastness of Siberia.
Hardcover:
9780395253991, titled "The Consul's File" | Bookthrift Co, July 1, 1977, cover price $1.98 | About this edition: Award-winning writer Paul Theroux takes us on a journey through small town Malaysia through the eyes of the exuberant Spencer Savage in his breathtaking novel The Consul's File.
Miscellaneous:
9780671498252, titled "The Consul's File" | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, March 1, 1984), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: A young American diplomat records his observations and experiences in post-colonial Malaysia where the uneasy atmosphere of a frontier town leads to intrigue and sexual diversion
Hardcover:
9780395264751 | Houghton Mifflin, May 1, 1978, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: When a young archivist rummages through fifty years' accumulation of her photographs, seventy-year-old Maude Coffin Pratt realizes that her fame means nothing and that her true self rests on an incestuous passion
Hardcover:
9780395272046 | Houghton Mifflin, November 1, 1978, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Lost in a New England snowstorm, a family is sheltered by a mysterious old man who disappears the next morning, leaving behind a magical 'Christmas card.
Hardcover:
9780395277881 | Houghton Mifflin, September 10, 1979, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Theroux's travels by train from Boston to Patagonia--a journey of selfdiscovery and uncommon encounters marked by startling contrasts in culture, climate, landscape, altitude, and attitude--are recounted
Paperback:
9780395521052, titled "The Old Patagonian Express by Train Through the Americas" | Reissue edition (Mariner Books, November 7, 1989), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Theroux's travels by train from Boston to Patagonia--a journey of selfdiscovery and uncommon encounters marked by startling contrasts in culture, climate, landscape, altitude, and attitude--are recounted
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780140861082 | Penguin/Highbridge, May 1, 1997, cover price $16.95
Hardcover:
9780395294536 | Houghton Mifflin, July 1, 1980, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The stories deal with the consequences of transplanting a family, an English girl spending a month with a family in France, a biologist rooming with a compulsive liar, and more
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9780671497620 | Reissue edition (Pocket Books, January 1, 1984), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: The stories deal with the consequences of transplanting a family, an English girl spending a month with a family in France, a biologist rooming with a compulsive liar, and more
Hardcover:
9780395294581 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1980, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A heartwarming Christmas adventure and mystery unfolds during the greatest blizzard London has ever known when Amy, Wallace, and Mrs.
Hardcover:
9781568493473 | Buccaneer Books, January 1, 1994, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: In this unique and luminous work that spent two months on The New York Times bestseller list, award-winning author and railroad-lover Paul Theroux takes us aboard the world's greatest trains -- the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Golden Arrow, the Mandalay Express -- on an odyssey from London through Europe and Asia, across the frozen vastness of Siberia.
Paperback:
9780618658947 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, June 1, 2006), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The author relates an account of the landscapes, characters, mishaps, and adventures he encountered on his grand railroad excursion from London to Tokyo and back again on such classic railroads as the Orient, Mandalay, and Trans-Siberian Expresses.
9780860098683 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, April 1, 1986), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In this unique and luminous work that spent two months on The New York Times bestseller list, award-winning author and railroad-lover Paul Theroux takes us aboard the world's greatest trains -- the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Golden Arrow, the Mandalay Express -- on an odyssey from London through Europe and Asia, across the frozen vastness of Siberia.
9780345301109, titled "Great Railway Bazaar" | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, March 1, 1981), cover price $2.95
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9780395331071 | Houghton Mifflin, February 1, 1983, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A series of stories describes the experiences of a young political officer during his first assignment to the American embassy in London
Paperback:
9780671498054, titled "London Embassy" | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, March 1, 1984), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: A series of stories describes the experiences of a young political officer during his first assignment to the American embassy in London
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780816198078 | Unabridged edition (G K Hall Audio Books, June 1, 1985), cover price $53.95 | About this edition: 1982 CHIVERS SOUND LIBRARY set of 6 UNABRIDGED AUDIO CASSETTES
Provides a profile of Britain and her people in a collection of interviews with citizens during the time of the papal visit, the Falklands crisis, a great railway strike, spiraling unemployment, and the birth of Prince William
Hardcover:
9780816137053 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, November 1, 1984), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Provides a profile of Britain and her people in a collection of interviews with citizens during the time of the papal visit, the Falklands crisis, a great railway strike, spiraling unemployment, and the birth of Prince William
9780395346457 | Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 1983, cover price $3.98 | also contains The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know | About this edition: Provides a profile of Britain and her people in a collection of interviews with citizens during the time of the papal visit, the Falklands crisis, a great railway strike, spiraling unemployment, and the birth of Prince William
9780395348437 | Limited edition (Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 1983), cover price $75.00
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9780395354926 | Limited edition (Houghton Mifflin, February 1, 1984), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: An account of a cruise down the Yangtze River of China offers commentary on the author's journey from Chungking to Shanghai, his fellow travelers, and the Chinese people, culture, scenery, landmarks, and cities
9780395348369 | Houghton Mifflin, January 1, 1984, cover price $8.70 | About this edition: An account of a cruise down the Yangtze River of China offers commentary on the author's journey from Chungking to Shanghai, his fellow travelers, and the Chinese people, culture, scenery, landmarks, and cities
Hardcover:
9780395318379 | Houghton Mifflin, May 1, 1984, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: An eccentric American inventor moves his family to the jungles of Central America in hopes of finding a better life
An eccentric American inventor moves his family to the jungles of Central America in hopes of finding a better life
Paperback:
9788472232129 | Tusquets Editor, June 1, 1984, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: An eccentric American inventor moves his family to the jungles of Central America in hopes of finding a better life
Product Description: Front cover has a bottom corner crease. Spine has no creasing, book is extremely clean and tight. Ships very quickly and packaged carefully
Paperback:
9780671498214 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, June 1, 1984), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Front cover has a bottom corner crease.
Two short novels, 'Doctor Slaughter' and 'Buried Alive,' offer a menacing, sinister study of double lives and their deadly implications
Hardcover:
9780395365113 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1984, cover price $2.98 | also contains Driving Hungry: A Memoir | About this edition: Two short novels, 'Doctor Slaughter' and 'Buried Alive,' offer a menacing, sinister study of double lives and their deadly implications
Hardcover:
9780395382219 | Houghton Mifflin, May 1, 1985, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: This book brings together a variety of experiences and adventures from the travels of the best-selling author to such places as Corsica, Burma, Cape Cod, East Africa, Afghanistan, a leper colony, and the New York subways
Hardcover:
9780395384015 | Houghton Mifflin, January 1, 1986, cover price $9.95
Paperback:
9780671602895 | Pocket Books, February 1, 1986, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Two short novels offer a menacing, sinister study of double lives and their deadly implications
Paperback:
9780395415016 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, May 8, 1986), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This book brings together a variety of experiences and adventures from the travels of the best-selling author to such places as Corsica, Burma, Cape Cod, East Africa, Afghanistan, a leper colony, and the New York subways
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