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Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
by Paul Theroux
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0241102855
- ISBN 13
- 9780241102855
- Seller
-
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo, 340 pages, yellowish wrappers
Issued before the dedicatee was determined. ARC. Uncorrected Advance Proof Copy.
Issued before the dedicatee was determined. ARC. Uncorrected Advance Proof Copy.
Synopsis
Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Theroux winds up on the poky, wandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine, which comes to a halt in a desolate land of cracked hills and thorn bushes. But with Theroux the view along the way is what matters: 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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4564
- Title
- Old Patagonian Express
- Author
- Paul Theroux
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0241102855
- ISBN 13
- 9780241102855
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- north america, south america, railroads, travel by rail,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Biblio member since 2005
Chicago, Illinois
About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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- Fine
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