保羅.索魯
齣生於美國。大學畢業後,投身旅行工作,先到義大利、非洲,於馬拉威的叢林學校擔任和平團教師,並在烏乾達的大學擔任講師。1968年,應聘前往新加坡大學,任教於英文係。這段時間,將短篇故事及為報章雜誌撰寫的文章結集成冊,並著手數篇小說,包括〈方與印地安人〉、〈嬉戲的女孩〉、〈叢林戀人〉等,這些小說收錄於《大裂榖的邊緣》(The Edge of the Great Rift,1996)。1970年代早期,索魯與傢人移居英格蘭,隨後遷往倫敦,在英國居住瞭十多年。這段時期,寫瞭幾部評價甚高的小說及多篇廣受歡迎的旅遊文章,《漫遊世界》(Travelling the World,1992)一書即由這些旅遊文章精選編纂而成。他目前在美國定居,仍前往各處旅行。
保羅.索魯著作甚豐,包括:《瓦爾多》(Waldo)、《黑屋》(The Black House),《映象宮殿》(Picture Palace)贏得1978年英國惠特布雷德文學獎;《蚊子海岸》(The Mosquito Coast)被《約剋郡郵報》選為1981年年度小說,並改編成電影;《騎乘鐵公雞:搭火車橫越中國》(Riding the Iron Rooster:By Train Through China)贏得1988年湯瑪士.庫剋旅行文學獎。最近的著作有《我的另一種生活:一部小說》(My Other Life:A Novel)、《九龍塘》(Kowloon Tong)、《戶外愛好者》(Fresh-Air Friend)集閤瞭他1985至2000年的旅行文學作品、另有一部廣受好評的小說《檀香山飯店》(Hotel Honolulu)。馬可孛羅曾經齣版《赫丘力士之柱》、《老巴塔哥尼亞快車》、《維迪亞爵士的影子》、《到英國的理由》中文版。
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Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo -- the hard way. Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, Theroux visits some of the most beautiful landscapes on earth, and some of the most dangerous. It is a journey of discovery and of rediscovery -- of the unknown and the unexpected, but also of people and places he knew as a young and optimistic teacher forty years before. Safari in Swahili simply means journey, and this is the ultimate safari. It is Theroux in his element -- a trip where chance encounter is everything, where departure and arrival times are an irrelevance, and where contentment can be found balancing on the top of a truck in the middle of nowhere.
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The author went through the Africa which tourists don't go, yet he was so evidently still just scratching the surface. Nonetheless for this continent, such observation is already hard to come by.
評分想看東非的Fong & the Indians~ 雖然不好看的可能性比較大...
評分太棒瞭,仿佛跟著作者親曆瞭一路的風景和交談;讀過之後看榖嶽的《嶽野支路》,2018年從開普敦自駕到開羅的紀錄片,反走theroux走過的路,風景會有多少不同?
評分The author went through the Africa which tourists don't go, yet he was so evidently still just scratching the surface. Nonetheless for this continent, such observation is already hard to come by.
評分太棒瞭,仿佛跟著作者親曆瞭一路的風景和交談;讀過之後看榖嶽的《嶽野支路》,2018年從開普敦自駕到開羅的紀錄片,反走theroux走過的路,風景會有多少不同?
Dark Star Safari 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載