Old Patagonian Express
by THEROUX, PAUL
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
NORTH HAMPTON, New Hampshire, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
1979. Very Good. THEROUX, PAUL. The Old Patagonian Express. By Train Through the Americas. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1979. First edition. 8vo, pp.404, maps on endpapers. Dj. Vg/vg.
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.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Landscape Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10334
- Title
- Old Patagonian Express
- Author
- THEROUX, PAUL
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- TRAVEL MEMOIR, CENTRAL AMERICA, TRAIN TRAVEL, SOUTH AMERICAN, UNITED STATES, 0395277884
Terms of Sale
Landscape Books
Books may be returned within 10 days with prior notification.
About the Seller
Landscape Books
Biblio member since 2007
NORTH HAMPTON, New Hampshire
About Landscape Books
Landscape Books specializes in books about garden history, garden design, landscape architecture, and city planning.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- VG/VG
- Very Good Condition book with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used book that does show some...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...