
And when I think how the railroad has been pushed through this unwatered wilderness and haunt of savage tribes. That train was the one piece of life in all the deadly land it was the one actor, the one spectacle fit to be observed in this paralysis of man and nature. Title 917'.04'53 E27.2 ISBN 5-5 Photoset, printed and bound in Great Britain by Redwood Burn Ltd, Trowbridge and Esher America - Description and travel - 1951 2. PAUL THEROUX OCR 8 afmg HAMISH HAMILTON LONDON First published in Great Britain 1979 by Hamish Hamilton Ltd Garden House 57-59 Long Acre London WC2E 91Z Copyright c 1979 by Cape Cod Scriveners Co Endpapers drawn by Patrick Leeson British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Theroux, Paul The Old Patagonian Express. THE OLD PATAGONIAN EXPRESS By Train Through The Americas


ALSO BY PAUL THEROUX Fiction Waldo Fong and the Indians Girls at Play Murder in Mount Holly Jungle Lovers Sinning with Annie Saint Jack The Black House The Family Arsenal The Consul's File Picture Palace A Christmas Card Criticism V.S.Naipaul Non-fiction The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
