Author: Paul Theroux
Theme: Time, Travel, Reading
Words: book, spend, goes, grind, somewhere, sees, writes
A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It’s not about inventing.
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