Explore how the title reflects the author’s search for places and people that no longer exist in the way he remembered them.
Evaluate Theroux's critiques of the cultures he visits—is he a keen observer of truth, or is his perspective clouded by Western bias?
In this travelogue, Theroux retraces the epic journey he took thirty years earlier in his classic The Great Railway Bazaar . He travels through Eastern Europe, Central Asia, India, and Southeast Asia, reflecting on how the world—and he himself—has changed over three decades.