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Theroux has a wonderful way of getting the most out of brief encounters with the locals
Through his interactions with the natives of the places he visits he helps us get to know them
Full of the usual keen observations and spiced with the requisite bit of i am better than them paul theroux attitude
Wherever he goes he tries to establish contact with the local inhabitants
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- This product had a total of 259 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 19 2021.
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Shame about the excessive number of typos
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The idyllic photo on the front awakened in me a craving for pale beaches in exotic locales id always wanted to see tahiti and i hoped theroux could take me there if only by proxy
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In that sense i didnt get what i wanted
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He breaks down the sociopolitical situations of each of the places he sets foot on whos in power howd they get there what are the deficiencies how does history contribute to the picture
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Resultantly theroux quelched my desire to escape to bora bora revealing it to be a french colony wherein the natives were held at second class whereat the colonizing government felt free to engage in nuclear testing not far enough off shore
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Happy isles is like many of his books peppered with accounts of sitdowns with prominent political figures and artists
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Although part of the saga might have been skewed by the islanders disdainfor the authors beachbumadopted persona
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In the early 1990s travel writer and author paul theroux is at a lifestyle change as his marriage has fallen apart
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