Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar Modern Postbebop full of humorous and thought-provoking

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which led President Harry Truman to call her the First Lady of the World

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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar Modern Postbebop full of humorous and thought-provokingThirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, the worlds most acclaimed travel writer re creates his 25,000 mile journey through eastern Europe, central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. Half a lifetime ago, Paul Theroux virtually invented the modern travel narrative by recounting his grand tour by train through Asia. In the three decades since, the world he recorded in that book