The old Patagonian express : by train through the Americas / Paul Theroux ; [maps by Richard Sanderson]

By:

Theroux, Paul

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Penguin Books 1980Description: 430pp maps ; 22 cmISBN:

0140054936

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

917/.04/53

LOC classification:

E27.2 .T47 1979

Summary: 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. Shivering and sweating by turns as the temperature and altitude rise and plummet, he describes the people he encountered - the tedious Mr Thornberry in Limon and reading to the legendary blind writer, Jorge Luis Borges, in Buenos Aires

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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. Shivering and sweating by turns as the temperature and altitude rise and plummet, he describes the people he encountered - the tedious Mr Thornberry in Limon and reading to the legendary blind writer, Jorge Luis Borges, in Buenos Aires

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