The Old Patagonian Express, Paul Theroux
Condition: WELL READ (Good apart from a tear to the base of the spine)
Publisher: Penguin (Orange Spine)
Publication date: 1985
First published in 1979
Format: Paperback
Pages: 430
About the Book:
‘I studied my maps and there appeared to be a continuous track from my house in Medford to the Great Plateau of Patagonia in southern Argentina. There, in the town of Esquel, one ran out of railways.’
From blizzard-stricken Boston to arid Patagonia; travelling by luxury express and squalid local trucks; sweating and shivering by turns as the temperature and altitude shot up and down; thrown in with the appalling Mr Thornberry in Limon and reading nightly to the blind writer, Borges , in Buenos Aires; Paul Theroux’s vivid pen clearly evokes the contrasts of a journey ‘to the end of the line’.
