The Aged Patagonian Express tells of Paul Theroux’s train journey down the space of North and SOUTH USA. Starting on Boston’s subway, he depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina’s most southerly suggestion. Shivering and sweating by converts as the heat and altitude rise and plummet, he identifies the people he experienced – the tedious Mr Thornberry in Limón and reading to the legendary blind article writer, Jorge Luis Borges, in Buenos Aires.