Figures in a landscape : people and places : essays: 2001-2016 /
"A delectable collection of Theroux's recent writing on great places, people, and prose"--
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Study for figures in a landscape
- My drug tour: searching for ayahuasca
- Thoreau in the wilderness
- Liz in Neverland
- Greeneland
- Hunter in the kingdom of fear
- Conrad at sea
- Simenon's world
- Dr. Sacks, the healer
- Nurse Wolf, the hurter
- Robin Williams: "Who's he when he's at home?"
- Tea with Muriel Spark
- Mrs. Robinson revisited
- Talismans for our dreams
- The rock star's burden
- Living with geese
- Trespassing in Africa
- The seizures in Zimbabwe
- Stanley: the ultimate African explorer
- Paul Bowles: not a tourist
- Maugham: up and down in Asia
- English hours: nothing personal
- Traveling beyond Google
- Hawaii: islands upon islands
- Mockingbird in Monroeville
- Benton's America
- My life as a reader
- The real me: a memory
- Life and the magazine
- Dear old dad: memories of my father
- The trouble with autobiography.