This summer marks the 50th anniversary of Paul Theroux's The Great Railway Bazaar, the rollicking account of the four and a half months he spent riding trains through Europe and Asia before coming home (he was then living in London) on the Trans-Siberian Express. I wrote an appreciation of the book for The American Scholar that turned into an examination of travel writing over the last 75 years: https://theamericanscholar.org/the-great-american-travel-book/
