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Synopsis
Theroux's narrative of his travels to 51 Pacific islands.
| Size | | Length: | 528 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 34.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Theroux clearly considers traveling as he does to be a moral as well as an aesthetic act....For travel to 'have any value at all' for Theroux, it must be done alone."
Harper's - Sallie Tisdale (09/19/1995)
"Perceptive, terribly readable, and wickedly funny.... [An] exhilarating book."
"Possibly his best travel book."
"By the epiphany at the end of the book, Theroux, a prickly bear at best, has never sounded so happy, which makes this, with the best of travel writing, an interior as well as a surface odyssey."
"'The Happy Isles' is Theroux at the top of his probing, insightful and entertaining game. What makes Theroux so good is what always separates the fine writers from the pack: his ability to look at the familiar in a fresh, original way--and make us richer for it."
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