The acclaimed travel writer journeys by train across the Americas from
Boston to Patagonia in this international bestselling travel memoir.
Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to
catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Paul Theroux takes a grand
railway adventure first across the United States and then south
through Mexico, Central America, and across the Andes until he winds
up on the meandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine. His epic
commute finally comes to a halt in a desolate land of cracked hills
and thorn bushes that reaches toward Antarctica. Along the way,
Theroux demonstrates how train travel can reveal “"the social
miseries and scenic splendors” of a continent. And through his
perceptive prose we learn that what matters most are the people he
meets along the way, including 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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ISBN
9780547524009
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
Mariner Books / Open Road Integrated Media
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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