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9781849538268: Ticket to Ride: Around the World on 49 Unusual Train Journeys [Lingua Inglese]
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ISBN 10: 1849538263 ISBN 13: 9781849538268
Casa editrice: Summersdale Publishers, 2016

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Experience the world by train alongside best-selling travel writer Tom Chesshyre, as he takes a whistle-stop tour around the globe in 49 unique journeys

Why do people love trains so much?

Tom Chesshyre is on a mission to find the answer by experiencing the world through train travel - on both epic and everyday rail routes, aboard every type of ride, from steam locomotives to bullet trains, meeting a cast of memorable characters who share a passion for train travel.

Join him on the rails and off the beaten track as he embarks on an exhilarating whistle-stop tour around the globe, on journeys on celebrated trains and railways including:

- India's famed toy train
- Sri Lanka's Reunification Express
- The Indian Pacific across the Australian outback
- The Shanghai maglev
- And the picturesque rail journeys of the Scottish Highlands
Plus trains through Kosovo, North Macedonia, Turkey, Iran, Finland, Russia, America and France, with short interludes in North Korea, Italy, Poland, Peru, Switzerland, England and Lithuania. All aboard!

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Informazioni sull'autore

Tom Chesshyre is the author of eleven travel books, the latest telling the story of a 379-mile hike around the Lake District. He has travelled 40,000 miles around the world for his train books; most recently for Slow Trains Around Spain: A 3,000-Mile Adventure on 52 Rides. His book writing has also taken him across North Africa after the Arab Spring, round the "dark side" of the Maldives on cargo ships, along the length of the River Thames and on a journey through "unsung Britain" (in To Hull and Back). He worked on the travel desk of The Times for 21 years and is now freelance, contributing to The Critic and New European magazines. He lives in London.

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Editore
Summersdale Publishers
Data di pubblicazione
2016
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1849538263
ISBN 13 
9781849538268
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
320
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
Hachette Ireland
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