The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
by Theroux, Paul
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 039552105X
- ISBN 13
- 9780395521052
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Cambridge, New York, United States
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Company. Softcover. Good. 1979. Covers are a bit turned up, but aside from that just show minor wear mostly at the edges. Pages appear clean and free of marks. Binding is reasonalbly tight.
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Eric Strattman (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 202306111649
- Title
- The Old Patagonian Express
- Author
- Theroux, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 039552105X
- ISBN 13
- 9780395521052
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- This edition first published
- 1989-11-07
- Bookseller catalogs
- Memoir and Biography; Travel;
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Eric Strattman
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