The Pillars of Hercules (book)

First edition (publ. Putnam)

The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean is a travelogue written by the American travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux, first published 1995.[1]

It concerns a year-and-a-half long expedition around the shoreline of the Mediterranean Sea from one of Hercules' Pillars (Gibraltar) to the other (Ceuta)[2] undertaken during 1993-94. Theroux recounts his experiences from the many diverse countries that border the shores of the sea, including the war-torn Yugoslavia (this was shortly before the break-up of the former republic), the troubled Levant and the recently liberated Albania.

The Pillars of Hercules consists of eighteen chapters:[1]

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 Theroux, Paul (1996). The Pillars of Hercules. ISBN 978-0-14-025314-6.
  2. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/06/18/specials/theroux-hercules.html


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