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The Old Patagonian Express

The Old Patagonian Express

By Train Through the Americas

By Paul Theroux

Paperback / softback | ISBN 9780141189154

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New Modern Classics edition with a NEW preface by Paul Theroux

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 Lim n 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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BOOK DETAILS

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9780141189154
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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages: 448
Width (mm): 129
Height (mm): 198
Depth (mm): 25

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