About this title: Celebrated travel-writer Paul Theroux turns his pen on the Americas, describing the trip from Boston to Patagonia, from subway to steam engine.
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Description: PB, Pocket Books, New York, 1980, ISBN#0671836536. Covers are browning, showing wear to edges, creases to backstrip, pgs.175-225 were wet at bottom edge and rippled, contents are browning and still pretty tight. Good. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780395277881ISBN:0395277884
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 404 p. Audience: General/trade. Spine faded. Inside copy clean and tight. read more
Description: Poor. Following the track of railways from his home in Boston to Argentina, Paul Theroux sets out on an adventure of incredible variety, and danger. read more
Description: Good. 0395277884 Condition: GOOD. (Book may have one or a combination of the following characteristics: former library book, dust jacket missing, cover wear, name written inside cover, considerable underlining/highlighting, remainder mark, binding loose, binding slants, pages tanning / curling, etc. Overall, the book is in decent shape. This is a blanket description. Please email us if you require a specific, detailed description of the book condition. We will typically respond within one week ... read more
Description: Good. 0395277884 Condition: GOOD. (Book may have one or a combination of the following characteristics: former library book, dust jacket missing, cover wear, name written inside cover, considerable underlining/highlighting, remainder mark, binding loose, binding slants, pages tanning / curling, etc. Overall, the book is in decent shape. This is a blanket description. Please email us if you require a specific, detailed description of the book condition. We will typically respond within one week ... read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. 0395277884 Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Description: Fair in Poor jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. D.J. in very poor condition, large tears and creasesprevious owners name blacked out on top of front page/ book shows very heavy wear/ good reader's copy read more
"This book was written in 1979 so conditions in South America may have improved. The excellent writing described many poor and desolate places. Read the book, don't go there."
"I can't finish this one... his trip seems completely pointless and every page says more of the same. It's exhausting reading it and the only reason I pushed through was because I was stuck in an airport waiting for my plane to take off. I have about 100 pages left but will most likely never finish it."
"i love travel narrative and trains so i thought i'd love this but i gave it one star because the author is such a condescending prat to the people he meets. He manages to make sure his ideas stay intact and wipe away their whole philosophies with a puff of pipe smoke. I had to quit reading it. I'll go back to it and update my review when my prat-o-meter gets set back to zero. might take a while."
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