Travel Author Paul Theroux on the Destinations of a Lifetime

BY THIS POINT, one assumes that writer Paul Theroux has not only been everywhere, but that he’s gotten there by every means of conveyance (short of rocket) known to man. After all, he kayaked through the South Pacific for his 1992 book “The Happy Isles of Oceania,” made his way overland from Cairo to Cape Town by bus, truck and canoe in 2002’s “Dark Star Safari,” and traversed Europe and Asia by rail, first in 1975’s “The Great Railway Baz…