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The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
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The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas Paperback - 1989

by Paul Theroux

Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Theroux takes readers on a train journey from New England to Patagonia in southernmost Argentina.


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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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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. The Old Patagonian Express chronicles Paul Theroux's train journey from his home in Boston, Massachusetts to the foot of South America, in 1978. Full of witty and sharp observations, Theroux goes out of his way to talk to as many locals as possible along the way.
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 celebrated writer, Jorge Luis Borges, who delights in having Theroux read Robert Louis Stevenson to him.

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  • Title The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
  • Author Paul Theroux
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mariner Books Classics, Boston
  • Date 1989-11-07
  • Features Maps
  • ISBN 9780395521052 / 039552105X
  • Weight 0.96 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.38 x 5.5 x 1.1 in (21.29 x 13.97 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
  • Library of Congress subjects America - Description and travel, Railroad travel - America
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98162535
  • Dewey Decimal Code 917.045
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