Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work of travel writing is perhaps The Great Railway Bazaar (1975).

In this book, he retraces some of the trip described in The Great Railway Bazaar.

Paul Theroux wrote a classic account of the route in The Great Railway Bazaar (1975).

Paul Theroux devotes a chapter of The Great Railway Bazaar to his journey from Paris to Istanbul on the Direct-Orient Express.

If you haven't read Theroux's travel writing then don't start here, but with his first travel book, The Great Railway Bazaar - the book that launched a whole generation of imitators.

In "The Great Railway Bazaar," for instance, we board the fabled Orient Express to the sound of Theroux's cabinmate filling the chamber pot at midnight.

My book about the journey, "The Great Railway Bazaar," would be entirely different.

His vivid trail of letters grew, embracing not just fiction but, after the immense success of his 1975 travelogue, "The Great Railway Bazaar," all manner of documentaries of place.

She and two friends had shared a train compartment with him when he was on his travels for "Great Railway Bazaar," and they found themselves portrayed in the book as coarse and contemptible.