Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-11-24
ISBN 13: 0141930772
Total Pages : 448 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (419 users)
Read and Download Paul Theroux book The Old Patagonian Express in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TThe Old Patagonian Express. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 448 pages. Book excerpt: 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 Limón 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’.