Theroux graduated from the University of Massachusetts in 1963. Until 1971 he taught English in Malawi, Uganda, and Singapore ; thereafter, he lived in England and devoted all his time to writing. several of his early novels—including Girls at Play ( 1969 ), Jungle Lovers ( 1971 ), and Saint Jack ( 1973 ; film 1979 ) —centre on the social and cultural dislocation of Westerners in postcolonial Africa and Southeast Asia. His late works of fiction included The Family Arsenal ( 1976 ), about a group of terrorists in the London slums ; The Mosquito Coast ( 1982 ; film 1986 ), about an american inventor who attempts to create an ideal residential district in the Honduran jungle ; My hidden History ( 1989 ) ; Millroy the Magician ( 1993 ) ; My early Life ( 1996 ) ; and The Elephanta Suite ( 2007 ). A dead Hand ( 2009 ) is a crime novel set in India. The Lower River ( 2012 ) chronicles an aged world ’ s render to the malawian village where he had served as a Peace Corps volunteer in his youth. The satirical Mother Land ( 2017 ) centres on a dysfunctional kin headed by a egotistic matriarch. In Under the Wave at Waimea ( 2021 ), an aging surfer examines his liveliness after killing a man while driving drunk. Some of Theroux ’ s short fabrication was collected in Mr. Bones ( 2014 ) .
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Theroux first achieved commercial achiever with a best-selling travel book, The Great Railway Bazaar ( 1975 ), describing his four-month gearing travel through Asia. His subsequent travel books included The Old Patagonian Express ( 1979 ), The glad Isles of Oceania ( 1992 ), The Pillars of Hercules : A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean ( 1995 ), and Dark Star Safari : overland from Cairo to Cape Town ( 2002 ). He returned to many of the locales he explored in The Great Railway Bazaar to write Ghost Train to the eastern star : On the Tracks of the Railway Bazaar ( 2008 ). He blended anecdotes from his own experiences abroad with travel writing from an align of literary figures in The Tao of Travel : Enlightenments from Lives on the Road ( 2011 ). The last train to Zona Verde : My ultimate african Safari ( 2013 ) recounts a harrow travel up the western coast of Africa, and Deep South : Four Seasons on Back Roads ( 2015 ) relates his meanderings through the destitute regions of the American South.
