The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas: Penguin Modern Classics
Autor Paul Therouxen Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 mar 2008
'The journey, not the arrival, matters'
The Old Patagonian Expresstells 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 and reading to the legendary blind writer, Jorge Luis Borges, in Buenos Aires. Witty, sharply observed and beautifully written, this is a richly evocative account of travelling to 'the end of the line'.
Paul Edward Theroux (b. 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, born in Medford, Massachusetts. Among his best known works of travel-writing areThe Great Railway Bazaar(1975),The Old Patagonian Express(1979), andRiding the Iron Rooster(1985). Theroux has published numerous works of fiction, some of which have been adapted into films, includingThe Mosquito Coast(1981), a 1986 film directed by Peter Weir and starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren. Theroux is the father of British documentary filmmaker Louis Theroux, and the uncle of American actor and screenwriter Justin Theroux.
If you enjoyedThe Old Patagonian Express, you might like Antoine de Saint-Exupéry'sWind, Sand and Stars,also available in Penguin Modern Classics.
'One of the most entrancing travel books written in our time'
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'Travel writing at its most accomplished'
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141189154
ISBN-10: 0141189150
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 132 x 199 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Modern Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141189150
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 132 x 199 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Modern Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Paul
Therouxhas
written
many
works
of
fiction
and
travel
writing,
including
the
modern
classicsThe
Great
Railway
Bazaar,The
Old
Patagonian
Express,
My
Secret
HistoryandTheMosquito
Coast.
He
won
the
Edward
Stanford
Award
for
Outstanding
Contribution
to
Travel
Writing
2020.
Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands.
Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands.