Although Theroux has also written travel books in general and about various modes of transport, his name is synonymous with the literature of train travel. Theroux's best-seller, The Great 4/5(14). 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 Full of witty and sharp observations, Theroux goes out of his way to talk to as many locals as possible along the bltadwin.ru by: · 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.
Paul Theroux, in his introduction to THE OLD PATAGONIAN EXPRESS, states that his wish was to make this "the ultimate book about getting there." As in his other train voyage narratives, this book is about the journey rather than the destination however, as usual, we manage to glimpse quite a lot of the country and people he encounters along the way. The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas. A witty sharply observed journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning his journey in Boston, where he boarded the subway commuter train, and catching trains of all kinds on the way, Paul Theroux tells of his voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts and Illinois to the arid. By Train Through the Americas. By Paul Theroux. ne of the casualties of travel by jet, together with civilized cuisine and the notion that people are not sardines, is the old-style travel book, the sort that used to be written by Norman Douglas and D.H. Lawrence and John Dos Passos and Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh.
The Old Patagonian Express. Author: Paul Theroux. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 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. The Old Patagonian Express By Train Through The Americas by Theroux, Paul Theroux's travels by train from Boston to Patagonia--a journey of selfdiscovery and uncommon encounters marked by startling contrasts in culture, climate, landscape, altitude, and attitude--are recounted. The acclaimed travel writer journeys by train across the Americas from Boston to Patagonia in this international bestselling travel bltadwin.rung 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 a.
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