- Editorial:
- AURUM
- Año de edición:
- 2009
- Materia:
- Viajeros Contemporáneos
- ISBN:
- 978-1-84513-770-0
- EAN:
- 9781845137700
- Páginas:
- 338
- Idioma:
- ANGLES
LAST CALL FOR THE DINING CAR
Ever since Paul Theroux set off on the marathon journey that became the bestselling travel book The Great Railway Bazaar, we have loved reading about travelling by train. Now, Michael Kerr, the Daily Telegraph’s deputy travel editor, has gone back through the archives to compile a riveting anthology of the best railway travel. Here are epic forays from Wick in northernmost Scotland all the way to Vladivostok, across India, high over the Andean Altiplano, from Moscow to Peking, and on the Sunset Express across America to California. From Michael Palin to Nicholas Crane, Lee Langley to Janet Daley, the Telegraph’s writers sample every kind of train, from the luxurious Orient Express to the newly reopened Welsh Highland narrow-gauge, and even the insanely crowded commuter trains of Bombay. By turns hilarious and alarming, this is armchair travel at its very best – and the perfect book, indeed, for a long train journey.