The Old Patagonian Express : By Train Through The Americas
by Theroux, Paul
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0241102855
- ISBN 13
- 9780241102855
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton. Very Good- in Very Good+ dust jacket. (1979). First Edition. Hardcover. 0241102855 . No signatures. A vertical crease to spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First UK edition. [10], 340, [2 (blank)] pages. Brown boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 228 x 149mm. Top page edges dyed red. Maps on endpapers. The author's second travel book, after "The Great Railway Bazaar" (1975). "The 'Old Patagonian Express' was the final train Paul Theroux took. It seemed like the end of the world - and indeed it very nearly was. Months before, he had set out from Boston, Masschusetts [. . .] on his way to Patagonia by train. Ahead lay more more trains: the Lone Star, the Aztec Eagle, the Balboa Bullet, the Tren de la Sierra, La Estrella del Norte, and even the Buenos Aires Subterranean." - from dust-jacket blurb. "One of us on that sliding subway train was clearly not heading for work." - the opening sentence. .
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25643
- Title
- The Old Patagonian Express : By Train Through The Americas
- Author
- Theroux, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0241102855
- ISBN 13
- 9780241102855
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1979)
- Keywords
- 0241102855
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Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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