Off the Rails: A Train Trip Through Life

✍ Scribed by Severgnini, Beppe

• Book ID: 110461085
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 462 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781592408726

✦ Synopsis

In this witty and entertaining collection of travel tales, an acclaimed journalist explores his obsession with trains --and what his rail journeys have taught him about culture and identity.
"I've gone around the world in installments. Every trip has been a revelation. I've watched regions, nations, and continents change moods and I've met more people on trains than in forty years of airplane flights. Every train trip has been a spectacle. Trains are stages, cafes, bazaars. The only talk show that will never go off the air..."
Beppe Severgnini has spent his life traveling the world, and not just because he's a journalist; he's a passionate, unflagging train buff. Off the Rails recounts some of his favorite trips across Europe, Australia, Asia, and the United States, each journey bringing readers not only to a different place but to a different time, from his honeymoon on the Trans-Siberian Express (in a four-person compartment!), to a winding journey from...