Old Patagonian Express, the

432 pages

Spanish language

Published June 23, 1999 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-14-024979-8
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4 stars (13 reviews)

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

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This was a good book, though a little unnecessarily snarky at other travel writers. He's good at bring characters to life, and you get to meet a bunch of them - most, though certainly not all, fellow Americans on the journey: Thornberry especially.

It's a little knowingly contrived, and perhaps that's the disappointment about this book - he's travelling to write a book, not travelling for the fun of it. That said, it's a good and fun read.

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