Ticket to ride : around the world on 49 unusual train journeys / / Tom Chesshyre

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910155011003321
• Autore: Chesshyre Tom
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, England : , : Summersdale, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-78372-809-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 pages) : maps
• Disciplina: 910.4
• Soggetti: Railroad travel
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Crewe station, Englend -- Kosovo and Maccedonia -- China -- India -- Sri Lanka -- Turkey and Iran -- Finland, Russia and China -- Australia -- America -- Bordeaux, France -- China, North Korea, Italy to Poland -- Peru, Spain, Switzerland to Italy, Poland, Kaliningrad and Lithuania -- Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh, Mallaig to Glasgow, Scotland, Kent and East Sussex, England.
• Sommario/riassunto: Tom Chesshyre has made it his mission to experience the world through train travel - on both epic and everyday rail routes, aboard every type of train, from colonial steam locomotives to high-tech bullet trains. Join him on a whistle-stop tour of some of the most exhilarating journeys around the globe, from Sri Lanka to Tehran and beyond.