The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the AmericasHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 1979 - 404 pagina's INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. The Old Patagonian Express chronicles Paul Theroux's train journey from his home in Boston, Massachusetts to the foot of South America, in 1978. Full of witty and sharp observations, Theroux goes out of his way to talk to as many locals as possible along the way. 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 celebrated writer, Jorge Luis Borges, who delights in having Theroux read Robert Louis Stevenson to him. |
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The Lake Shore Limited I | 1 |
The Lone Star | 27 |
The Aztec Eagle | 39 |
El Jarocho to Veracruz | 63 |
The Passenger Train to Tapachula | 79 |
30 to Guatemala City | 96 |
00 to Zacapa | 115 |
The Railcar to San Salvador | 129 |
The Expreso del Sol to Bogotá | 231 |
The Expreso Calima | 252 |
The Autoferro to Guayaquil | 272 |
El Tren de la Sierra | 289 |
The Passenger Train to Machu Picchu | 300 |
El Panamericano | 319 |
La Estrella del Norte The North Star to Buenos Aires | 345 |
The Buenos Aires Subterranean | 362 |
The Local to Cutuco | 144 |
The 1200 to Limón | 159 |
The 1000 to Puntarenas | 190 |
The Balboa Bullet to Colón | 201 |
The Lagos del Sur Lakes of the South Express | 378 |
The Old Patagonian Express | 389 |
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The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas, Volume 10 Paul Theroux Fragmentweergave - 1979 |
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Alfredo American Andy Argentina arrived asked banana Barranquilla beer Bogotá Borges Buenos Aires canal church coffee cold Colombia conductor Costa Rica Cuzco dark dining car dogs door drink dust Ecuador El Salvador empty English Esquel gave girl green Guatemala Guayaquil hand hills houses Huancayo huts Ibagué Inca Indians Jacobacci knew lady landscape Laredo laughed leave light Lima Limón lived looked Mexican Mexico miles morning mountains never Nicaragua night Nuevo Laredo Old Patagonian Express Panama passengers Patagonia Peru plaza railway river road Salvador San José Santa Ana seat seemed seen sleeping car smiled snow Spanish station stopped story street suitcase talk Tapachula tell thing Thornberry thought ticket told took tourists town tracks train trees trip Tucumán valley Veracruz village walked wanted watched window woman Zacapa Zone Zonians