The book has been praised for its depth and understanding about the people, the culture, giving a flavor of the various South American countries. He endures harsh climates, including the extreme altitude of Peru and the Bolivian Plateau, meets the author Jorge Luis Borges in Buenos Aires and is reunited with long lost family in Ecuador. The Old Patagonian Express, Paul Theroux, Hamish Hamilton, 1979, First Edition, First Impression This book tells of Therouxs journey from his home in Boston. This book tells the story of Paul Therouxs journey from his home in Boston, Massachusetts to the foot of South America, in 1978. Theroux then proceeds to Colombia and then over the Andes and finally reaches the small town of Esquel in Patagonia. He ended his transit of Central America in Panama where he takes the short train ride across the isthmus.
Among his best known works of travel-writing are The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), The Old Patagonian Express (1979), and Riding the Iron Rooster (1985). He then flies to Costa Rica where he takes the train to Limón and Puntarenas. 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, born in Medford, Massachusetts. He then takes the train south into Guatemala and then El Salvador where he goes to a soccer match and is amazed by the violence. He then crosses the border and takes a train south through Mexico to Veracruz where he meets a woman looking for her long-lost lover. Starting out from his home town in Massachusetts, via Boston and Chicago, Theroux travels by train across the North American plains to Laredo, Texas. Paul Theroux The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas (Penguin Modern Classics) Paperback 27 Mar. The Old Patagonian Express (1979) is a written account of a journey taken by novelist Paul Theroux.
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