The Old Patagonian Express

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780547524009

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The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux Pdf

The acclaimed travel writer journeys by train across the Americas from Boston to Patagonia in this international bestselling travel memoir. Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Paul Theroux takes a grand railway adventure first across the United States and then south through Mexico, Central America, and across the Andes until he winds up on the meandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine. His epic commute finally comes to a halt in a desolate land of cracked hills and thorn bushes that reaches toward Antarctica. Along the way, Theroux demonstrates how train travel can reveal “"the social miseries and scenic splendors” of a continent. And through his perceptive prose we learn that what matters most are the people he meets along the way, including 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.

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 039552105X

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The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux Pdf

An account of Theroux's trip by train from Boston to Bogota, Columbia.

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-24
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780141930770

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The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux Pdf

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’.

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780547525150

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The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux Pdf

The acclaimed author recounts his epic journey across Europe and Asia in this international bestselling classic of travel literature: “Compulsive reading” (Graham Greene). In 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on a four-month journey by train from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. In The Great Railway Bazaar, he records in vivid detail and penetrating insight the many fascinating incidents, adventures, and encounters of his grand, intercontinental tour. Asia's fabled trains—the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-Siberian Express—are the stars of a journey that takes Theroux on a loop eastbound from London's Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, then back from Japan on the Trans-Siberian. Brimming with Theroux's signature humor and wry observations, this engrossing chronicle is essential reading for both the ardent adventurer and the armchair traveler.

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780547526997

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Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux Pdf

The acclaimed travel writer chronicles a year of train travel across China in a revealing travelogue that “gives the reader much to relish and think about” (Publishers Weekly). The author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey through China. The always irascible, infectiously curious author “is in top form as he describes the barren deserts of Mongolia and Xinjiang, the ice forests of Manchuria and the dry hills of Tibet. He captures their otherworldly, haunting appearances perfectly. He is also right on target when he talks about the ugliness of China's poorly planned, hastily built cities” (Mark Salzman, The New York Times). Theroux hops aboard a train as part of a tour group in London and sets out for China's border. He then spends a year traversing the country, where he pieces together a fascinating snapshot of a unique moment in history. From sweeping and desolate natural landscapes to the dense metropolises of Shanghai, Beijing, and Canton, Theroux offers an unforgettable portrait of a magnificent land and an extraordinary people.

Author : Kate McCahill
Publisher : Santa Fe Writers Project
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781939650566

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Patagonian Road by Kate McCahill Pdf

Spanning four seasons, 10 countries, three teaching jobs, and countless buses, Patagonian Road chronicles Kate McCahill's solo journey from Guatemala to Argentina. In her struggles with language, romance, culture, service, and homesickness, she personifies a growing culture of women for whom travel is not a path to love but to meaningful work, rare inspiration, and profound self-discovery. Following Paul Theroux's route from his 1979 travelogue, McCahill transports the reader from a classroom in a Quito barrio to a dingy room in an El Salvadorian brothel, and from the neighborhoods of Buenos Aires to the heights of the Peruvian Andes. A testament to courage, solitude, and the rewards of taking risks, Patagonian Road proves that discovery, clarity, and simplicity remain possible in the 21st century, and that travel holds an enduring capacity to transform.

Author : Belle Boggs
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555970079

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Mattaponi Queen by Belle Boggs Pdf

Winner of the 2009 Bakeless Fiction Prize, a confident debut collection from Belle Boggs about life on and around the Mattaponi Indian Reservation Set on the Mattaponi Indian Reservation and in its surrounding counties, the stories in this linked collection detail the lives of rural men and women with stark realism and plainspoken humor. A young military couple faces a future shadowed by injury and untold secrets. A dying alcoholic attempts to reconcile with his estranged children. And an elderly woman's nurse weathers life with her irascible charge by making payments on a decrepit houseboat—the Mattaponi Queen. The land is parceled into lots, work opportunities are few, and the remaining inhabitants must choose between desire and necessity as they navigate the murky stream of possession, love, and everything in between.

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780771085383

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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star by Paul Theroux Pdf

National Bestseller In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux recreates an epic journey he took thirty years ago, a giant loop by train (mostly) through Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. In short, he traverses all of Asia top to bottom, and end to end. In the three decades since he first travelled this route, Asia has undergone phenomenal change. The Soviet Union has collapsed, China has risen, India booms, Burma slowly smothers, and Vietnam prospers despite the havoc unleashed upon it the last time Theroux passed through. He witnesses all this and more in a 25,000 mile journey, travelling as the locals do, by train, car, bus, and foot. His odyssey takes him from Eastern Europe, still hungover from Communism, through tense but thriving Turkey, into the Caucasus, where Georgia limps back toward feudalism while its neighbour Azerbaijan revels in oil-driven capitalism. As he penetrates deeper into Asia’s heart, his encounters take on an otherworldly cast. The two chapters that follow show us Turkmenistan, a profoundly isolated society at the mercy of an almost comically egotistical dictator, and Uzbekistan, a ruthless authoritarian state. From there, he retraces his steps through India, Mayanmar, China, and Japan, providing his penetrating observations on the changes these countries have undergone. Brilliant, caustic, and totally addictive, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is Theroux at his very best.

Author : Bruce Chatwin,Paul Theroux
Publisher : Macmillan _
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)
ISBN : 0330326732

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Patagonia Revisited by Bruce Chatwin,Paul Theroux Pdf

Author : Paul Fussell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1982-06-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780199878536

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Abroad by Paul Fussell Pdf

A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s.

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Eamon Dolan Books
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780544866478

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On the Plain of Snakes by Paul Theroux Pdf

Legendary travel writer Paul Theroux drives the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then goes deep into the hinterland, on the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind today's brutal headlines. Paul Theroux has spent his life crisscrossing the globe in search of the histories and peoples that give life to the places they call home. Now, as immigration debates boil around the world, Theroux has set out to explore a country key to understanding our current discourse: Mexico. Just south of the Arizona border, in the desert region of Sonora, he finds a place brimming with vitality, yet visibly marked by both the US Border Patrol looming to the north and mounting discord from within. With the same humanizing sensibility he employed in Deep South, Theroux stops to talk with residents, visits Zapotec mill workers in the highlands, and attends a Zapatista party meeting, communing with people of all stripes who remain south of the border even as their families brave the journey north. From the writer praised for his "curiosity and affection for humanity in all its forms" (New York Times Book Review), On the Plain of Snakes is an exploration of a region in conflict.

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780618839339

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The Last Train to Zona Verde by Paul Theroux Pdf

The world's most acclaimed travel writer journeys through western Africa from Cape Town to the Congo.

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0395877520

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My Other Life by Paul Theroux Pdf

A fictionalized autobiography of a travel writer. There are descriptions of his experiences as a teacher of English in an African village, his meeting with the writer, Anthony Burgess, and his encounter with Queen Elizabeth of England.

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0618126937

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Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux Pdf

Whether it is trekking through the icy Maine woods, or journeying to a remote island in the South Pacific where the first atomic bombs were detonated, Theroux serves as both camera and the eye. This collection of essays and articles is the ultimate good read for anyone fascinated by travel.

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-19
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780547549194

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The Tao of Travel by Paul Theroux Pdf

The acclaimed author explores the greatest travel writing by literary adventurers from Freya Stark and James Baldwin to Nabokov and Hemmingway. Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe with this meditative journey through the books that shaped him as a reader and traveler. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel enumerates “The Contents of Some Travelers’ Bags” and exposes “Writers Who Wrote about Places They Never Visited”; tracks extreme journeys in “Travel as an Ordeal” and highlights some of “Travelers’ Favorite Places.” Excerpts from the best of Theroux’s own work are interspersed with selections from travelers both familiar and unexpected, including J.R.R. Tolkien, Samuel Johnson, Eudora Welty, Evelyn Waugh, Isak Dinesen, Charles Dickens, Henry David Thoreau, Pico Iyer, Mark Twain, Anton Chekhov, Bruce Chatwin, John McPhee, Peter Matthiessen, Graham Greene, Paul Bowles, and many more.