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Paul Theroux catches a commuter train on an regular weekday morning in Medford, MA . Two and a half months later he steps of a train in Esquel, Argentina. He starts his journey in an ordinary way and it turns into something new and extraordinary. In Theroux's words "But I had known all along that I had no intention of writing about being in a place--that took the skill of a miniaturist. I was more interested in the going and the getting there, the poetry of departures."
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