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The Old Patagonian Express; by train through the Americas
by Theroux, Paul
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- A Fine, bright copy in tight binding. Very tiny closed tear to front DJ edge, light soiling. A near fine(-) jacket housed in arh
- ISBN 10
- 0395277884
- ISBN 13
- 9780395277881
- Seller
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. A Fine, bright copy in tight binding. Very tiny closed tear to front DJ edge, light soiling. A near fine(-) jacket housed in arhival myalr. See photos.. Octavo in white color illus DJ, 404 pages, b&w illustrations, brown-ink maps on lining papers, 24 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || An account of Theroux's trip by train from Boston to Bogota, Columbia. Contents: The Lake Shore Limited -- The Lone Star -- The Aztec Eagle -- El Jarocho to Veracruz -- The passenger train to Tapachula -- The 7:30 to Guatemala City -- The 7:00 Zacapa -- The railcar to San Salvador -- The local to Cutuco -- The Atlantic Railway : the 12:00 to Limón -- The Pacific Railway : the 10:00 to Puntarenas -- The Balboa Bullet to Colón -- The Expreso del Sol to Bogotá -- The Expreso Calima -- The Autoferro to Guayagquil -- El Tren de la Sierra -- The passenger train to Machu Picchu -- El Panamericano -- Las Estrella del Norte ("The North Star") to Buenos Aires -- The Buenos Aires Subterranean -- The Lagos del Sur ("Lakes of the South") Express -- The Old Patagonian Express. Railroad travel -- America.
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 91956
- Title
- The Old Patagonian Express; by train through the Americas
- Author
- Theroux, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- A Fine, bright copy in tight binding. Very tiny closed tear to front DJ edge, light soiling. A near fine(-) jacket housed in arh
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing (full number line)
- ISBN 10
- 0395277884
- ISBN 13
- 9780395277881
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1979
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
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