The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
by:
Paul Theroux (author)
Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Theroux winds up on the poky, wandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine, which comes to a halt in a desolate land of cracked hills and thorn bushes. But with Theroux the view along...
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Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Theroux winds up on the poky, wandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine, which comes to a halt in a desolate land of cracked hills and thorn bushes. But with Theroux the view along the way is what matters: the monologuing Mr. Thornberry in Costa Rica, the bogus priest of Cali, and the blind Jorge Luis Borges, who delights in having Theroux read Robert Louis Stevenson to him.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780395521052 (039552105X)
Publish date: November 7th 1979
Publisher: Mariner Books
Pages no: 404
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Funny,
Literature,
Travelogue,
Cultural,
American,
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This is Theroux's second excellent train travel book. In it he travels from Boston to Patagonia, mostly by rail (with the odd flight involved). As usual, he is astute, he is observant and, perhaps above all, honest. One of the engrossing - and I must admit frustrating - things about this book is how...
Yes, he is a curmudgeon - but I still love his books.This one in particular fed into my wish to " someday" travel. I was a poor student who thought travel was only for the rich. I didn't realize you could do it cheaply - if you don't mind a few discomforts. It gave the information I needed to take ...
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