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The Old Patagonian Express

Paul Theroux

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#2577 of 3,809 books · #154 in General

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1981).

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 Limón 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'.

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Publisher
Penguin UK
ISBN-13
9780141930770
Topics
Travel by trainLatin AmericaPersonal journey

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