The Untold Railway Stories, 9780715656082
Hardcover
Uncover hidden histories and journeys on railways around the world.
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    320 pages

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    1 December 2025

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Summary

The Untold Railway Stories: Journeys Through Time and Terrain

A compendium of fascinating and evocative new writing on railway travel and history. Telling of little known journeys and uncovered histories on railway routes around the world - from the UK, Europe and Africa to North America, the Middle East and Asia. 

From Myanmar’s highlands to the British Pennines, from slow travel between coffee plantations in Borneo to a cross-continent odyssey on African railways, from the…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780715656082
ISBN-10:0715656082
Author:Monisha Rajesh, Shahnaz Habib, Clare Hammond, Mark Ovenden, Vicki Pipe, Leon McCarron, Andrew Martin, Sam Williams, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Publisher:Duckworth Books
Imprint:Duckworth
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:1 December 2025
Weight:0g
Dimensions:216mm x 135mm
About The Author

Monisha Rajesh

Monisha 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 (2012) was named one of the Independent’s top ten books on India. Her second book, Around the World in 80 Trains (2019) won the National Geographic Travel Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Award.

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