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Ticket to Ride
- Around the World on 49 Unusual Train Journeys
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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Summary
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, and the picturesque rail journeys of the Scottish Highlands. Plus trains through Kosovo, North Macedonia, Turkey, Iran, Finland, Russia, America, France and China, with short interludes in North Korea, Italy, Poland, Peru, Switzerland, England and Lithuania. All aboard!
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- Martin Roberts
- 10-03-24
Relaxing funny, informative
As usual the author makes you want to turn the pages. A book which I thoroughly enjoyed as I learn not just about trains around the world but a little drop of social policy and history. Quite funny too in places!
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- Andrew
- 18-03-24
Saved by a reasonable narrator
Ok, so this doesn’t feel like a great book for a train enthusiast. Firstly, the author knows diddly squat about railways, and you won’t learn much about the locos, rolling stock, the lines, or the stations (or at least, not the kind of stuff railway enthusiasts seek to know!)
Secondly, the author seems to have a very rude and uppity approach to the different cultures. More than once he disrespects the culture of the locals and looks down upon them. (I reference the tea incident as an example).
Finally, it is written as a travel guide, but with not enough information to sell railway holidays to you. Why on earth a publisher/newspaper has commissioned this, is beyond me. This man needs to get a real job and admit that he simply thinks he’s a specialist and very cultured, but I see someone who has experienced a cushy life who looks down on anyone who doesn’t have the sophisticated and wealthy lifestyle he has come to know. I pour scorn on his parents, who clearly spoilt him rotten as a child and left him unable to look upon anyone with empathy or compassion.
A poor poor read and a waste of your tokens/money. Shame I can’t get a refund really.
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