●"[THEROUX'S] WORK IS DISTINGUISHED BY A SPLENDID EYE FOR DETAIL AND THE TELLING GESTURE; a storyteller's sense of pacing and gift for granting closure to the most subtle progression of events; and the graceful use of language. . . . We are delighted, along with Theroux, by the politeness of the Turks, amazed by the mountainous highlands in Syria, touched by the gesture of an Albanian waitress who will not let him pay for his modest meal. . . . The Pillars of Hercules [is] engrossing and enlightening from start (a damning account of tourists annoying the apes of Gibraltar) to finish (an utterly captivating visit with Paul Bowles in Tangier, worth the price of the book all by itself)." ●「我生命中有很長一段時間是住在不屬於我的地方，我一直是個不折不扣的異鄉人。」－保羅．索魯 ●大部分時間都扮演著「異鄉人」角色的保羅．索魯，雖然已遊歷無數國家，但總是因為太慎重其事而不曾到過地中海，這回，他終於決定要從直布羅陀展開他的環地中海旅程，由直布羅陀岩的「赫丘力士之柱」為起點，環遊整個地中海區，抵達僅有數哩之距的另一根「赫丘力士之柱」－摩洛哥的休達。