Luis Sepulveda has a passion: traveling. Wandering the world, watching people and hearing stories. But Sepulveda has another passion, that in symbiosis with the previous one, which is to tell by himself, in his own way, those listened stories and others that, thanks to his boundless capacity for fabling, enrich the reality to transform it into literature.
Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Paul Theroux takes a grand railway adventure first across the United States and then south through Mexico, Central America, and ...
This was the beginning of the "Old Patagonia Express" adventure, which at this point I had been awaiting 5 days already. An old VHS tape had drawn my attention to this remote line shortly before my astronomical career commenced.
Los muchos miles de lectores de Luis Sepúlveda ya conocen su gran pasión: viajar, deambular por el mundo, observar a sus gentes y escuchar sus historias. Pero Sepúlveda tiene también...
The owner of the New Patagonian Express stayed calm. He found a spot to prop up his flashlight, in the crook of a currently useless wall sconce, then arranged himself in its narrow beam. Taking his time, he arranged the handkerchief ...
Since its discovery by Magellan in 1520, Patagonia was known as a country of black fogs and whirlwinds at the end of the inhabited world.
In The Great Railway Bazaar, he records in vivid detail and penetrating insight the many fascinating incidents, adventures, and encounters of his grand, intercontinental tour.
The Great Railway Bazaar In 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on his now-legendary journey from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
This Handbook offers a comprehensive and engaging overview of contemporary issues in Literary Translation research through in-depth investigations of actual case studies of particular works, authors or translators.
From sweeping and desolate natural landscapes to the dense metropolises of Shanghai, Beijing, and Canton, Theroux offers an unforgettable portrait of a magnificent land and an extraordinary people.
"Nowhere is a Place recounts Paul Theroux's and Bruce Chatwin's impressions of this little-known windswept wilderness and reveals the powerful effect Patagonia has had on the Western literary imagination since...