Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Theroux winds up on the poky, wandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine, which comes to a halt in a desolate land of cracked hills and thorn bushes. But with Theroux the view along the way is what matters: the monologuing Mr. Thornberry in Costa Rica, the bogus prie...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The Old Patagonian Express tells of Paul Theroux’s train journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston’s subway, he depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina’s most southerly tip, via pretty Central American towns and the ancient Incan city of Macchu Pichu. Shivering and sweating by turns a...(展开全部)

保罗•索鲁 Paul Theroux, 1941- 美国旅行作家。曾在马拉维的丛林学校担任和平团教师，在乌干达的大学担任讲师。在新加坡大学任教期间，将短篇故事及为报刊撰写的文章结集成册，并开始写小说。后与家人移居英国，居住十多年。目前在美国定居，仍前往各处旅行。 保罗•索鲁著作丰富，包括《赫拉克勒斯之柱》《老巴塔哥尼亚快车》《美国深南之旅》等。荣获英国惠特布雷德文学奖、托马斯•库克旅行文学奖。

First published in 1975, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains -- the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-...(展开全部)

尤里·瓦西里耶维奇·布伊达 Юрий Васильевич Буйда，1954— 俄罗斯作家。出生于俄罗斯加里宁格勒地区的兹纳明斯克。小说《零号列车》入围1994年俄罗斯布克奖短名单。短篇小说集《普鲁士新娘》于1999年获得阿波罗·格里戈里耶夫奖，该书的英文版由奥利弗·雷德翻译，于2005年获得罗西卡翻译奖。

By 1917 the European war seemed to be endless. Both sides in the fighting looked to new weapons, tactics and ideas to break a stalemate that was itself destroying Europe. In the German government a small group of men had a brilliant idea: why not sow further confusion in an increasingly chaotic Russia by arranging for Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the most notorious of revolutionary e...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 On the luxurious Blue Train, beautiful American heiress Ruth Kettering's dire predictions come true-she's murdered. With few clues, Hercule Poirot must look into Ruth's startling secret life.

The team behind the #1 New York Times bestseller Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site returns with another fabulous book for bedtime! The dream train pulls into the station, and one by one the train cars are loaded: polar bears pack the reefer car with ice cream, elephants fill the tanker cars with paints, tortoises stock the auto rack with race cars, bouncy kangaroos stuff ...(展开全部)

查理．裴列格里諾（Charles Pellegrino） 著有超過十餘本小說和非文學類書籍，包括暢銷書《鐵達尼號上的幽靈》（Ghost of the Titanic）等。以其在古生物學、太空探險的核子推進系統，以及從龐貝和鐵達尼號到世貿中心的鑑識考古學 的卓越工作為基礎，為許多科學期刊撰文。他是詹姆斯．卡麥隆的鐵達尼號探險隊和電影《阿凡達》的科學顧問。現居紐約。

查理．裴列格里諾（Charles Pellegrino） 著有超過十餘本小說和非文學類書籍，包括暢銷書《鐵達尼號上的幽靈》（Ghost of the Titanic）等。以其在古生物學、太空探險的核子推進系統，以及從龐貝和鐵達尼號到世貿中心的鑑識考古學 的卓越工作為基礎，為許多科學期刊撰文。他是詹姆斯．卡麥隆的鐵達尼號探險隊和電影《阿凡達》的科學顧問。現居紐約。