Around India in 80 Trains: One of the Independent's Top 10 Books about India - Softcover

Rajesh, Monisha

 
9781857886443: Around India in 80 Trains: One of the Independent's Top 10 Books about India
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1857886445 ISBN 13: 9781857886443
Verlag: John Murray, 2016

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Crackles and sparks with life like exploding Diwali fireworks. - William Dalrymple

Monisha Rajesh turns to a map of the Indian Railways and takes a page out of Jules Verne's classic tale, embarking on an adventure around India in 80 trains.

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Monisha Rajesh is a British journalist whose writing has appeared in Time magazine, The New York Times, The Guardian and The Sunday Telegraph. Winner of the National Geographic Traveller Book of the Year, she was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award 2020. Monisha was born in Norfolk and mostly raised in Yorkshire - with a brief stint in Madras. She currently lives in London with her husband and two daughters.

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In 1991, Monisha Rajesh's family uprooted from Sheffield to Madras in the hope of making India their home. Two years later, fed up with soap-eating rats, severed human heads and the creepy colonel across the road, they returned to England with a bitter taste in their mouths.
Two decades on, she turns to a map of the Indian Railways and takes a page out of Jules Verne's classic tale, embarking on an adventure around India in 80 trains, covering 40,000km - the circumference of the Earth. She hopes that 80 train journeys up, down and across India will lift the veil on a country that has become a stranger to her.
Along the way, Monisha discovers that the Indian Railways - featuring luxury trains, toy trains, Mumbai's infamous commuter trains, and even a hospital on wheels - have more than a few stories to tell, not to mention a colourful cast of characters. And with a self-confessed 'militant devout atheist' in tow, her personal journey around a country built on religion isn't quite what she bargained for...

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Verlag
John Murray
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1857886445
ISBN 13 
9781857886443
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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