The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas

The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas

By
Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux
1979 • 429 pages

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178 books

South America

Daren
Daren
The Mapmaker's Wife : A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon
The Galapagos Affair
Eight Men and a Duck: An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island
A Death in Brazil
Four Kiwis and a Falcon
The Amazon
Diez Cuentos de Eva Luna Con Guia de Comprension y Repaso de Gramatica

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17 books

Train

Daren
Daren
The Incredible Mile: Siberia - Mongolia - Uzbekistan
Double Circuit
Corner Seat
One Chinese Moon
Sunrise on the Southbound Sleeper: More Great Railway Journeys from the Daily Telegraph
Train to Pakistan
Slow Trains to Simla

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0 books

Owned

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Geir
Burmese Days
Into the Heart of Borneo
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
Steal Like an Artist
12.21
Gone Girl
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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434 books

Faction

geirertz
Geir
A Pilgrimage to Eternity
We Should All Be Feminists
Hersketeknikker: Nyttige og nådeløse
Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
God, Human, Animal, Machine

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118 books

Reiselitteratur

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Ways of Going Home
Eye on the world
Slow Boats Home
In Search of Conrad
Sailing through China
The Imperial Way: By Rail from Peshawar to Chittagong
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific

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90 books

Non Fiction

Tzusanna
ChristineSupporter
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
The Man Who Ate Everything
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
The Princes in the Tower
The Wars of the Roses
Washington: A Life
John Adams

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2,746 books

Owned

Daren
Daren
Two Under the Indian Sun
Sailing with Mohammed
Beowulf
Slowly Down the Ganges
One Lonely Night
Killer Mine
The Snake

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310 books

Usa

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Daren
The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break
Lucky You
Interpreter of Maladies
The Bonesetter's Daughter
The Vine Of Desire
Tropic of Capricorn
The Snatching of Bookie Bob and Other Stories

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2,143 books

Non Fiction

Daren
Daren
Days and Nights in Calcutta
The Real "Bravo Two Zero"
Soldier Five: The Real Truth about the Bravo Two Zero Mission
In Xanadu: A Quest
Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
Infiltrators: Guns Drugs Deception And Murder Duty Calls
Paddy O'Brien: Whistle While You Work

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555 books

Usa Author

Daren
Daren
The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break
Lucky You
Magician: Apprentice
Silverthorn
Prince of the Blood
Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
The Fires of Heaven

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33 books

Panama

Daren
Daren
Moana: The Vastness of the Sea
The Golden Isthmus
A View of the World: Selected Journalism
The Five Pound Look
Ride the Volcano
The World Is All Islands
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

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47 books

Central America

Daren
Daren
The Winds of December
Four Kiwis and a Falcon
The Golden Isthmus
Jungle Capitalists: A Story of Globalisation, Greed and Revolution: United Fruit and the Invention of Twentieth-century Greed
Round Trip from Poptun: A Journey in Search of the Maya
The Comedians
From the Cam to the Cays: The Story of the Cambridge Expedition to British Honduras 1959-60

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45 books

Colombia

Daren
Daren
To Infinity and Beyond: What Che Guevara Started, Someone Had to Finish
Jungle Capitalists: A Story of Globalisation, Greed and Revolution: United Fruit and the Invention of Twentieth-century Greed
Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle
The Cocaine Eaters
Killing Pablo the hunt for the world's greatest outlaw
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Ride the Volcano

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93 books

North America

Daren
Daren
The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break
Interpreter of Maladies
Lucky You
Tropic of Capricorn
The Education of Frederick Douglass
We Live in Alaska
Mr. Kennedy's America

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66 books

Mexico

Daren
Daren
The Five Pound Look
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
The Survival of Jan Little
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
Round Trip from Poptun: A Journey in Search of the Maya
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

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50 books

Argentina

Daren
Daren
To Infinity and Beyond: What Che Guevara Started, Someone Had to Finish
Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Voyage in the Beagle
The Tender Traveller
The Pampas and the Andes

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13 books

El Salvador

Daren
Daren
Press on Regardless
Coleman's Drive
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny about This?"
Off The Map
Southern Cross to Pole Star: Tschiffely's Ride
Tschiffely's Ride: Ten Thousand Miles in the Saddle from Southern Cross to Pole Star

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39 books

Ecuador

Daren
Daren
The Mapmaker's Wife : A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon
The Galapagos Affair
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
Across the River of Death
Blinding Light
Floreana
The Fire Ox and Other Years

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84 books

Peru

Daren
Daren
To Infinity and Beyond: What Che Guevara Started, Someone Had to Finish
Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
Treasures Of The Andes: The Glories Of Inca And Pre Columbian South America
The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
Amazon Journey
Across the River of Death

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37 books

Bolivia

Daren
Daren
Eight Men and a Duck: An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island
Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
East to the Amazon: In Search of Great Paititi and the Trade Routes of the Ancients
The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness
A View of the World: Selected Journalism
The Tender Traveller
Across the River of Death

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16 books

Costa Rica

Daren
Daren
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
Jungle Capitalists: A Story of Globalisation, Greed and Revolution: United Fruit and the Invention of Twentieth-century Greed
Ride the Volcano
Views from Abroad: The Spectator Book of Travel Writing
Coleman's Drive
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
Venturesome Voyages

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35 books

Guatemala

Daren
Daren
A View of the World: Selected Journalism
Jungle Capitalists: A Story of Globalisation, Greed and Revolution: United Fruit and the Invention of Twentieth-century Greed
Round Trip from Poptun: A Journey in Search of the Maya
Maya: The Riddle and Rediscovery of a Lost Civilization
Guatemala, Land of the Mayas
The Ancient Maya
Press on Regardless

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62 books

Travel

Zed
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Patrick Leigh Fermor An Adventure
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
Roumeli : Travels in Northern Greece
Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
A Time of Gifts
The broken road : from the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
Between the Woods and the Water

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50 books

Travel

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zach
Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
The Travel Book
Alone on the Ice
Farthest North: The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North
Walking the Americas

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20 books

Books About Walking

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Laura
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Trespassing Across America
The Lord of the Rings
Running with the pack thoughts from the road on meaning and mortality
Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans
The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, and the Northeast Passage
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