description: 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 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.
language: English
title: The Old Patagonian Express
titlecomplete: The Old Patagonian Express
genres: Memoir, American, Nonfiction, The United States Of America, Biography, Trains, Travelogue, Travel, History, Adventure
ratings_count: 10325
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: General Nonfiction (Paperback)
publisher: Mariner Books