Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux (Omnibus) Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux (Omnibus) Writer Paul Theroux’s best-selling collection of travel essays including a trip to Kaluna are read by Stuart Milligan. From 2000. Show more According to Paul Theroux, writing once in The Washington Post, "Travel is only glamorous in retrospect." His best selling collection of travel essays Fresh Air Fiend, covers fifteen years of the forty or so years he's spent travelling. Includes visits to Florida, Malawi and Kaluna. Some of the graphic descriptions of diseases and meals Theroux endured are a far cry from glamour. Read by Stuart Milligan.