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<p>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.</p> <p>Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Theroux takes readers on a train journey from New England to Patagonia in southernmost Argentina.</p>
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- Author
- Paul Theroux; [endpaper maps by Richard Sanderson]
- Publisher
- HMH Books;Houghton Mifflin
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780241102855
- Category
- hobbies
- Subjects
- Travel, History, Biography
- Rating
- 3.95 / 5 (24 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- The Old Patagonian Express : By Train Through the Americas (1989)
- The Old Patagonian Express : By Train Through the Americas (1980)
- The old Patagonian express : by train through the Americas (1979)
- Fresh Air Fiend : Travel Writings, 1985-2000 (1986)
- The old Patagonian express : by train through the Americas (2011)
- Old Patagonian Express, The (1993)
- The old Patagonian express : by train through the Americas (2012)
- Old Patagonian Express, The: By Train Through the Americas (1979)
- The Old Patagonian Express : By Train Through the Americas (2014)
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