Writer Paul Theroux’s latest book, Under the Wave at Waimea (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), set in Hawaii, tells the story of Joe Sharkey, a legendary 60-something big-wave surfer, coming to terms with being past his prime—and a tragic accident that forever alters the way he sees life. We have always been struck by the fact that Theroux's writing—now more than 50 travelogues and novels that have set the gold standard for travel writing, from The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia to On the...
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