First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux\'s strange, unique, and hugely entertaining Railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature.
Asia\'s fabled trains -- the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-Siberian Express -- are the stars of a journey that takes him on a loop eastbound from London\'s Vi.
Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour.
First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux\'s strange, unique, and hugely entertaining Railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature