The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas (Penguin Modern Classics)
by:
Paul Theroux (author)
ISBN:
9780141189154 (0141189150)
Publish date: March 27th 2008
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 448
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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