Old Patagonian Express : By Train Through the Americas

English

ISBN: 039552105X

EAN: 9780395521052

Category: Travel / General/Travel / Essays & Travelogues/

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers

Release Date: 11/01/1989

Synopsis: 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.

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Old Patagonian Express : By Train Through the Americas

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.0 inches

Width: 5.5 inches

Length: 8.25 inches

Weight: 14.43 oz

Pages: 432