тАЬThere are those who think that Paul Theroux is the finest travel writer working in English. This collection can only enhance that reputation.тАЭтАФThe New York Times Book Review
Author and travel writer Paul Theroux does what no one else can: he travels to the isolated, unusual, and fascinating spots of the world, and creates an elegy to them that makes readers feel they are traveling with him. Evocative, breathtaking, intriguing, here is the armchair traveler's guide to the sites of the world he makes us feel we know.
Praise for To the Ends of the Earth
тАЬReads like a wonderful novel.тАЭтАФThe Pittsburgh Press
тАЬPowerful . . . This compendium unequivocally offers insight into the mind of a foremost American fiction writer who became an accidental tourist.тАЭтАФThe Christian Science Monitor
тАЬTheroux is a wonderful traveling companion. . . . To the Ends of the Earth┬аcombines the best of his travel writing. . . . With him the reader shares a conversation with a sultan on a polo ground in Malaysia; hears people тАШmourn with firecrackers, scattering cherrybombs on the tombstoneтАЩ in a Chinese cemetery in Singapore; feels overdressed around nudists in Corsica; sees sandbagged houses and bombcraters left in Vietnam on a cold December day in 1973.тАЭтАФThe Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star
тАЬTravel writing at its best . . . As you travel voyeuristically with Theroux, across the vast wastelands of interior China, the convoluted cultures of Latin America or campy seacoast towns of England, you're struck with his slightly jaundiced eye for the overlooked but telling detail, his skeptic's ear for the offhand but important comment.тАЭтАФThe Houston Post