The Old Patagonian Express - by train through the Americas:
by Theroux, Paul
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- ISBN 10
- 0241102855
- ISBN 13
- 9780241102855
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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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- Title
- The Old Patagonian Express - by train through the Americas:
- Author
- Theroux, Paul
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0241102855
- ISBN 13
- 9780241102855
- Publisher
- London: Hamish Hamilton, 1979: 0241102855
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1979
- Keywords
- modern first editions theroux america trains
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