Patagonie express

Paul Theroux

Publié par Grasset

505 pages

Résumé

The Old Patagonian Express tells of Paul Theroux’s train journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston’s subway, he depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina’s most southerly tip, 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 – 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 beautifully written, this is a richly evocative account of travelling to ‘the end of the line’.

Retour en Patagonie - Une conversation

The old patagonian express: by train through the americas

Ghost train to the eastern star - on the tracks of 'the great railway bazaar'

Voyage excentrique et ferroviaire autour du Royaume-uni

Suite Indienne

Sir vidia s shadow

Mon histoire secrète

Safari noir: Du Caire au Cap a travers les terres

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