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Informationen zum Autor Paul Theroux  is the author of many highly acclaimed books. His novels include  Burma Sahib, The Bad Angel Brothers, The Lower River, Jungle Lovers,  and  The Mosquito Coast , and his renowned travel books include  Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, On the Plain of Snakes,  and  Dark Star Safari . He lives in Hawaii and on Cape Cod. Klappentext INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. The Old Patagonian Express chronicles Paul Theroux's train journey from his home in Boston, Massachusetts to the foot of South America, in 1978. Full of witty and sharp observations, Theroux goes out of his way to talk to as many locals as possible along the way. 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 celebrated writer, Jorge Luis Borges, who delights in having Theroux read Robert Louis Stevenson to him. Zusammenfassung INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. The Old Patagonian Express chronicles Paul Theroux’s train journey from his home in Boston, Massachusetts to the foot of South America, in 1978. Full of witty and sharp observations, Theroux goes out of his way to talk to as many locals as possible along the way. 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 celebrated writer, Jorge Luis Borges, who delights in having Theroux read Robert Louis Stevenson to him....

Product details

• Authors: Paul Theroux
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.1989
• EAN: 9780395521052
• ISBN: 978-0-395-52105-2
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 208 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Travel > Travel guides > North and Central America; Brazil, Reference works, General and world history, Travel and holiday, Trains and railways: general interest, Photography and photographs, Places and peoples: general and pictorial works, US South, US West, US South: South Atlantic States, Mexico and Central America, TRAVEL: Central America, TRAVEL: United States / South / General, HISTORY: North America, TRAVEL: Reference, LITERATURE: MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY, TRAVEL: South America / General, LITERATURE: ESSAYS, TRANSPORTATION: Railroads / History, TRANSPORTATION: Railroads / General, TRANSPORTATION: Railroads / Pictorial, Literature / Memoir & Biography, Literature / Essays