The Untold Railway Stories - Couverture rigide

Rajesh, Monisha

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0715656082 ISBN 13 : 9780715656082

Editeur : Duckworth, 2025

Synopsis

A fresh, fascinating collection of new writing on train travel and railway history, marking the 200th anniversary of passenger railways

From the Burmese highlands to the British Pennines, from a precipitous Indian coastal line to a continent-crossing African journey, The Untold Railway Stories spans rail routes across the UK, Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and North America, revealing how train travel has shaped landscapes, lives and politics over two centuries.

Both a celebration and a reflection, it explores the ingenuity, ambition, beauty – and at times, the cost – of the railway age. Published to mark 200 years since the world’s first passenger line, this is a fresh look at the global legacy of the rails.

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À propos de l'auteur

MONISH RAJESH is an author and journalist whose writing has appeared in Time magazine, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, the Guardian, The Sunday Times and the Sunday Telegraph, in which she wrote a monthly column about travelling the world by train. Her first book Around India in 80 Trains was named one of the Independent's top ten books on India. Her second book, Around the World in 80 Trains won the National Geographic Travel Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Award. Her most recent book is Midnight Express: Around the World by Night Train. @monisha_rajesh.

SHAHNAZ HABIB, translator and travel writer, author of Airplane Mode

CLARE HAMMOND, investigative journalist, author of On the Shadow Tracks

MARK OVENDEN, cartographer and author of Transit Maps of the World and Great Railway Maps

VICKI PIPE, journalist and museum transport historian and educator, co-author of The Railway Adventures and Great British Railways

LEON MCCARRON, travel writer and historian, author of Wounded Tigris

ANDREW MARTIN, novelist, historian and railway enthusiast, author of To The Sea by Train, Underground, Overground and the Jim Stringer series

YVONNE A. OWUOR, novelist and essayist, author of The Dragonfly Sea and Dust

SAM WILLIAMS, writer and producer of documentaries and podcasts about African history and culture

OMAR MUSA, novelist, visual artist and poet, author of Here Come the Dogs

FELICITY SPECTOR, ITN news producer and journalist, author of Bread and War

JACK CURTIS, co-founder of environmental start-up Carbon Jacked

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Dusk settles heavily on the suburbs of Dar Es Salaam. The world is evanescent. A forest of heads and arms crowds the open windows along the length of the train. The immediacy of the environment is astonishing. The tracks slice directly through a community that is coming alive at the end of a hot day, mere inches from people, houses, trees. I could knock hats off people’s heads as we pass. We see a game of football, a church service, herds of motorbikes, a muezzin peering at a Qur’an in a minaret, women carrying baskets of nuts and tubers on their heads, busy night markets. Instantly, the salt-sprayed and spice-seasoned Swahili Coast has been replaced by something more obviously African – a burnt-orange sky, the smell of woodsmoke, scrambled music, vultures silhouetted on the treetops.

Night has almost fallen. The air outside, now rushing past the gaping windows, is chilly. Passengers retreat inside. Windows slam shut. People are getting ready for a forty-eight-hour odyssey. The train turns slightly, arcing south. The last of the sun catches the track, like an ember spat from a fire. The metal seems for a moment to light up, marking a path of steel into the heart of Africa. Our journey to Angola has begun.

–– from ‘The Freedom Railway’ by Sam Williams

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duckworth
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0715656082
• ISBN 13: 9780715656082
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Rajesh Monisha
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible