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Ultimate Train Journeys: World

Richards, Tim

 
9781741177350: Ultimate Train Journeys: World
ISBN 10: 1741177359 ISBN 13: 9781741177350
Verlag: Hardie Grant Explore, 2021

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Ultimate Train Journeys: World profiles 30 great train trips from every inhabited continent, selected by long-time rail fan and travel writer Tim Richards.

Environmental concerns are prompting travellers to consider the surface route – and the best means of transport at ground level is undoubtedly rail. Tim's curated selection covers the full range of rail options, from the humble commuter train to long-distance night trains with sleeper berths and dining cars, and all journeys are blessed with great scenery.

There's the Coast Starlight (Los Angeles to Seattle), the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (New Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling) and The Orient Express (London via Paris to Venice), just to name a few. Each chapter includes a detailed itinerary, fast facts, photos and maps.

With space to move and no road traffic to get snarled up in, the real drawcard of train adventures is that they are immersed within a shifting environment, yet not entirely of it. You can witness your surrounds at a steady pace, and properly get to know your travel companions. The old-school ways of travel are fast becoming new again.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tim Richards is an award-winning travel writer, specialising in rail travel, who will hop aboard any train at a moment’s notice. His work has appeared in newspapers, magazines and websites around the world, and in Lonely Planet’s guidebooks. He’s the author of Heading South (2021, Fremantle Press), an Australian rail-travel narrative; self-published travel memoir The Kick of Stalin’s Cow (2016), about post-communist Poland; and fantasy novel Mind the Gap 2014, HarperCollins). He’s a regular contributor to the 'Traveller' lift-out of Australian national newspapers, and of travel articles for Lonely Planet’s website. You can see his published work at iwriter.com.au, and he writes regularly about travel at patreon.com/timrichards.

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Ultimate Train Journeys: World profiles 30 great train trips from every inhabited continent, selected by long-time rail fan and travel writer Tim Richards.

Environmental concerns are prompting travellers to consider the surface route – and the best means of transport at ground level is undoubtedly rail. Tim's curated selection covers the full range of rail options, from the humble commuter train to long-distance night trains with sleeper berths and dining cars, and all journeys are blessed with great scenery.

There's the Coast Starlight (Los Angeles to Seattle), the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (New Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling) and The Orient Express (London via Paris to Venice), just to name a few. Each chapter includes a detailed itinerary, fast facts, photos and maps.

With space to move and no road traffic to get snarled up in, the real drawcard of train adventures is that they are immersed within a shifting environment, yet not entirely of it. You can witness your surrounds at a steady pace, and properly get to know your travel companions. The old-school ways of travel are fast becoming new again

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Verlag
Hardie Grant Explore
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1741177359
ISBN 13 
9781741177350
Einband
Flexibler Einband
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
200
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