The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
A Nonfiction, Travel book. But, truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes. Paul Theroux,...
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...
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- Pages: 448 pages
- ISBN: 9780141189154 / 141189150
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There are few things more abrasive to the human spirit, even in Patagonia, than someone standing behind you chomping and sucking ice cubes. Paul Theroux, The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas // A slow feeling of gathering sadness as each familiar place flashes by the window and disappears and becomes part of the past. Time is made visible, and it moves as the landscape moves. Paul Theroux, The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas // But, truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes. Paul Theroux, The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas //
"I had arrived in Patagonia, and i laughed when I remembered I had come here from Boston, on a subway train that people take to work."Call me a fanatic of Theroux's work, but travel writing isn't always about "Sugar-coating" your experiences with Wows and Awes. Paul is undoubtedly the Best in his class and he is never afraid of calling... why anybody would want to waste their time reading this judgmental, curmudgeon of a book by a guy who doesn't even want to visit anything, yet is so cocky in calling himself a traveler and not a tourist, is beyond me... reminds me way too much of an old professor i once dated. and, no, i did not continue wasting my time on this book... Since my retirement I have been blessed to be able to read a considerable number of books and am currently at a pace to read several hundred a year. My favorite authors that I presently focus on include David McCollough, Cormac McCarthy, Larry McMurtry, John Sandford and the author of this book......Paul Theroux. I have read many of...
