“The Old Patagonian Express” is a collection of many frightening and dangerous secrets of two continents in a book by Paul Theroux, a world-renowned professional traveler and screenwriter for popular films such as “Saint Jack,” “Christmas Snow,” and “Mosquito Coast” with Harrison Ford, as well as “The Half-Moon Street,” “The China Box.”
The splendor and poverty of the most mysterious and legendary Central American countries—Honduras, Colombia, and Panama—football frenzy in poverty-stricken El Salvador, time-defying mountain strongholds of the Incas in Chile, hidden behind the mask of a patron in Brazil—a wolfish glare of a military dictator.
“The Old Patagonian Express” is one of his most talked-about bestsellers—an enchanting description of the adventures of a lone romantic who didn’t fear buying a ticket and getting on a train to end up at the edge of the earth.