The Old Patagonian Express - Paul Theroux

Of the passengers waiting at a chilly South Street Station, Boston one morning in the late seventies, most will have been making short trips - commuters, perhaps, or visiting relatives. Others were perhaps going a few hours down the line to New York; a few bound for destinations further afield. None, however, could have been anticipating the journey Paul Theroux was. Heading south, south and further south still, his final stop was to be Esquel, in Patagonia, nearing the lowest apex of South America - the end of a line made up of an almost unbroken network of tracks originating in Boston. The titular train was the last to carry the author, who by then had ...  Read the complete review