The "Old Patagonian Express": By Train Through The Americas (Penguin Modern Classics) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for The "Old Patagonian Express" Tells of the author's journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston's subway, this work depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip, via pretty Central American towns and the ancient Incan city of Macchu Pichu.
Full description- Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published: 03 December 2008
- Format: Paperback 448 pages
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- Categories: Travel Writing
- ISBN 13: 9780141189154 ISBN 10: 0141189150
- Sales rank: 19,444
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Full description for The "Old Patagonian Express"
The "Old Patagonian Express" tells of Paul Theroux's train journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston's subway, he depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip, via pretty Central American towns and the ancient Incan city of Macchu Pichu. Shivering and sweating by turns as the temperature and altitude rise and plummet, he describes the people he encountered - thrown in with the tedious, and unavoidable, Mr Thornberry in Limon and reading to the legendary blind writer, Jorge Luis Borges, in Buenos Aires. Witty, sharply observed and beautifully written, this is a richly evocative account of travelling to 'the end of the line'.
