Trained for a life of travel
Michele Hewitson writing in the NZ Herald Sep 13, 2008 reviews Paul Theroux's latest,

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar

"I woke and yawned and, as always, took a vitamin pill and shaved with my battery-powered razor and brushed my teeth."
So writes Paul Theroux in a travel book which is the next volume of the autobiography he "will never write", but "once envisioned. As Pedro Almodovar once remarked, 'anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism'."

Thirty-three years ago an obviously much younger Theroux took a trip by train from London. He returned to his starting place four months later, having travelled on trains when there were trains, across India and South-East Asia, on the Trans-Siberian Express. He came home and wrote the Great Railway Bazaar, and became the greatest travel writer in the world.

Read Michele's full review here.