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'Fresh Air Fiend' Host Jacki Lyden talks with famed writer and traveler Paul Theroux, author of several books on traveling, among them The Old Patagonian Express, The Great Railway Bazaar, and novels which include The Mosquito Coast. His latest collection of travel essays is Fresh Air Fiend. The book covers almost 40 years of traveling and writing. Lyden and Theroux discuss the author's ideas on travel in a rowboat on Central Park Lake in Manhattan. (Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings; Houghton-Mifflin; 2000; ISBN: 0618034064 )

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Host Jacki Lyden talks with famed writer and traveler Paul Theroux, author of several books on traveling, among them The Old Patagonian Express, The Great Railway Bazaar, and novels which include The Mosquito Coast. His latest collection of travel essays is Fresh Air Fiend. The book covers almost 40 years of traveling and writing. Lyden and Theroux discuss the author's ideas on travel in a rowboat on Central Park Lake in Manhattan. (Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings; Houghton-Mifflin; 2000; ISBN: 0618034064 )