Paul Theroux on The Tao of Travel - The John Adams Institute
From Hemingway to Dickens, from Nabokov to Twain, from Isak Dinesen to Graham Greene, many of the world’s great writers were also great travel writers. Paul Theroux, arguably the most renowned living travel writer, has capped a fifty year writing career with The Tao of Travel, a collection of travel stories-by himself and others.
Moderator: Hans Bouman, de Volkskrant
In cooperation with Penguin Books
This video was recorded on May 25, 2011.
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I like his books. He's a real writer
Theroux deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature!
He's right in many ways about travel; I think of the words of Boccaccio, " Fools go to museums, wise men go to taverns" It's a way of getting under the skin of a place, you don't get that on a coach tour.
I am reading the book right now.
Very brave man. Always alone in dangerous places.
I wouldn't know he's American, curious accent. Excellent writer
@mysteriouspimp
6 жыл бұрын
new england voice. Massachusetts is a strange place. they don't sound American.
@ajs41
6 жыл бұрын
He spent more than 10 years living in England. I'm reading his 1983 book where he travelled around the coast of the UK.
@ericsierra-franco7802
6 жыл бұрын
He lived in London for many years and the accent stuck with him I believe he lived in England for 18 years.
@davidabramowitz4449
5 жыл бұрын
It's transatlantic!
@jerryhernandez9775
4 жыл бұрын
New england +British/imperial
I love his travel writings but I admit I found some of his observations a bit mean-spirited. I’m pleased he seems to be a decent guy in this talk
re-reading My Other Life, If anyone else describes some English behavioral tendencies more acutely than he (Lady Max), please let me know.
Theroux says that you could tell they were Tamils because they carried all their possessions on their heads. Was he really in India?
Its so sad that so many equate his take on particular things as 'grumpy' Perfect example of the distaste feel good culture has for anything not firmly planted in fantasy.
@ericsierra-franco7802
6 жыл бұрын
He is grumpy. He's a curmudgeon for sure. But he's still immensely enjoyable to read.
@JohnP470
5 жыл бұрын
May I humbly suggest that you use punctuation in this statement; your meaning is unclear without it.
@JohnP470
3 жыл бұрын
@Etta James English
Shorto ? dat is dé ontkenner v de grondlegger van Nieuw Amsterdam : -> Shorto verklaarde dat Fort Amsterdam (New York City) werd opgericht in 1653 - 28 jaar NA de bouw van Fort Amsterdam was gestart ! Hoe geloofwaardig nemen jullie die man ? De "Bestseller", die uitblinkt in ONNAUWKEURIGHEID.
I like him but travel when you are a rich and famous writer isn't really travel. Those people on the convoys, risking life and everything to arrive from Central America is travel.
@duartemenezesfalcao2487
5 жыл бұрын
Have you read any of his books?
@tomsckay7point0
4 жыл бұрын
unfortunately they can't write because they're ignorant.
@jerryhernandez9775
4 жыл бұрын
This person has not read any of his travel books. People only travel like refugees when they ARE refugees. Paul isn't usually staying at the Baiyoke
@gailshore8540
2 жыл бұрын
He does not travel in luxury, not even in comfort. Read one of his books and you'll see.
@tinydegrave8786
2 жыл бұрын
I think you don't know his works, sorry.