The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas (平装)

分类: 图书,进口原版书,Literature & Fiction(文学与虚构类),Genre Fiction(类型小说),
品牌: Paul Theroux
基本信息出版社:Penguin (2001年5月3日)平装:432页正文语种:西班牙语ISBN:0140249796条形码:9780140249798产品尺寸及重量:19.6 x 12.2 x 2.8 cm ; 323 gASIN:0140249796
商品描述内容简介"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 encounters - thrown in with the tedious, and unavoidable, Mr Thornberry in Limon 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'.作者简介Paul Theroux was born in Medford Massachusetts, in 1941, and published his first novel, WALDO, in 1967. His subsequent novels include Picture Palace, winner of the Whitbread Prize for Fiction, The Mosquito Coast, and the hugely acclaimed, Kowloon Tong. His travel books include The Great Railway Bazaar and The Pillars of Hercules.