Description
A compendium of fascinating and evocative new writing on railway travel and history.
Telling of little-known journeys and uncovered histories from railway routes around the world The Untold Railway StoriesΒ offers a rich, global perspective on life along the tracks.
From the Burmese highlands to the British Pennines, from a precipitous coastal railway in India to a cross-continent odyssey through Africa, these stories reveal a powerful new prism through which to explore landscapes, politics and human lives.
The Untold Railway Stories is a testament to the joy and impact of train travel β a chronicle of ingenuity, ambition, destruction and sacrifice β published to mark 200 years since the worldβs first passenger railway line.
