THE OLD PATAGONIAN EXPRESS: BY TRAIN THROUGH THE AMERICAS

Type

Book

Authors

PAUL THEROUX

ISBN 10

0140054936

ISBN 13

9780140054934

Tags

Literature & Fiction, Foreign Language Study & Reference, Travel

Description

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. - from Amzon

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