Abstract
Paul Theroux, travel writer inveterate, divides the travel writing genre into two distinct classes. There's the book about "getting there," with its focus on the transitory, the wide-screen, quick-jab observation, superficial contact with the locals, then off again to somewhere else. Then there's the book about "being there," in which the traveler stays relatively put and gets involved in the minutiae of daily life in a place foreign to the author and his readers. Although Theroux's travel books are of the first type, he respects the other type as well, mentioning his friend Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia as a seminal example and an inspiration for his own journey to the remote reaches of South America.
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