Sunrise on the Southbound Sleeper: More Great Railway Journeys from the Daily Telegraph - Hardcover

Kerr, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845136683 ISBN 13: 9781845136680

Publisher: Aurum Pr Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

A second collection of enthralling accounts of the most spectacular train trips from around the world

 

Readers will be immersed in evocative accounts of the Desert Express from Windhoek in Namibia, the stupendous Chinese feat of civil engineering that pushed a railway across the permafrost to Lhasa in Tibet, the scenic Coast Starlight train from Seattle to L.A., and a stupendous 2,000-mile trip across India, from Gujarat's parched salt flats to the lush semitropics of Assam. Following on Last Call for the Dining Car, Michael Kerr has compiled a hugely engrossing second volume of armchair travel on trains around the world, from such authors as Gavin Bell, John Betjeman, Jenny Diski, Simon Heffer, Dervla Murphy, Nicholas Shakespeare, and Alexander McCall Smith.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Kerr is the travel editor of the Daily Telegraph and the editor of Bon Voyage and Last Call for the Dining Car.

Review:

'Sublime...Michael Kerr has chosen some great writers, and they whisk you to the four corners of the earth. The romance and excitement of train travel is captured on each page. This is a treasure of travel writing.' - Patrick Neale The Bookseller 'An exceptionally well-chosen collection...the book itself amounts to a pleasurable journey...punctuated by pithy, profound anecdotal nuggets.' Time Out 'Another thoroughly entertaining collection...told with wit, lyricism and nostalgia' Good Book Guide 'A serendipitous collection for rainy nights, fuelling sleep with dreams of escape' The Scotsman

About this edition

• Publisher: Aurum Pr Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1845136683
• ISBN 13: 9781845136680
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352