The Old Patagonian Express : By Train Through the Americas
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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'The journey, not the arrival, matters.' Setting off in his hometown and ending up 'almost at the end of the world', Paul Theroux's The Old Patagonian Express is a travel writing tour de force from one of the masters of the genre. This beautifully written account tells of his epic train journey down the length of North and South America, from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip.
Beginning on Boston's subway, Theroux depicts a voyage via pretty Central American towns and the ancient Incan city of Macchu Pichu. Shivering and sweating by turns as the temperature and altitude rise and plummet, he describes the people he encountered along the way - thrown in with the tedious, and unavoidable, Mr Thornberry in Limón and reading to the legendary blind writer, Jorge Luis Borges, in Buenos Aires.
Witty, sharply observed and richly evocative, this is travel writing at its most accomplished - a journey to 'the end of the line' that stands as one of the most entrancing travel books written in our time.
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