Editor: Michael Kerr
Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd
Format: Hardback
Pages: 338
The Telegraph book of great railway journeys.
Michael Kerr, the Daily Telegraph's deputy travel editor, has gone through the archives to compile a riveting anthology of all the best railway travel that has appeared in the paper. Here are epic forays from Wick in northermost Scotland all the way to Vladivostock, across India, high over Andean Altiplano, from Moscow to Peking, and on the Sunset Express across America to California. From Michael Palin to Nicholas Crane, Lee Langley to Janet Daley, the Telegraph's writers sample every kind of train from the luxurious Orient Express to the insanely crowded commuter trains of Bombay.
This is armchair reading at its very best and the perfect book for a long train journey.