The Old Patagonian Express读书介绍
类别 | 页数 | 译者 | 网友评分 | 年代 | 出版社 |
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书籍 | 448页 | 8.0 | 2008 | Penguin Classics |
定价 | 出版日期 | 最近访问 | 访问指数 |
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GBP 10.99 | 2008-03-27 … | 2023-02-20 … | 34 |
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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’.
作者简介保罗•索鲁(1941- ),美国旅行作家。曾在马拉维的丛林学校担任和平团教师,在乌干达的大学担任讲师。在新加坡大学任教期间,将短篇故事及为报刊撰写的文章结集成册,并开始写小说。后与家人移居英国,居住十多年。目前在美国定居,仍前往各处旅行。
保罗•索鲁著作丰富,包括《老巴塔哥尼亚快车》《赫拉克勒斯之柱》《火车大巴扎》《美国深南之旅》等。荣获英国惠特布雷德文学奖、托马斯•库克旅行文学奖。
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