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The Trans-Siberian Railway
A Traveller's Anthology
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No railway journey on Earth can equal the Trans-Siberian between Moscow and Vladivostock. It is not just its vast length and the great variety of the lands and climes through which it passes. It is not just its history as the line that linked the huge territories which are Russia together. It is a dream which calls countless travellers to the adventure of the longest railway in the world.From the birth aboard of Rudolf Nureyev to the childhood obsession with the railway of Lesley Blanch, to the weariness that eventually overcame Paul Theroux, to the excitement of the authors own journey, this revised and updated collection of travellers accounts brings together emotions, descriptions and humour from a century of travel.This new edition of a classic anthology takes us through the tremendous achievement of the railways construction across harsh, unsettled lands through the earliest journeys of Western travellers and the trains on which they travelled, and their descriptions of fellow travellers, food, scenery, domestic arrangements, adventures on and off the train, convicts, revolution and war as the train carried them through a lonely, lovely landscape. The barrier of Lake Baikal was crossed by a British-built ice-breaker, put together on the lakeside until the link around the deep water and through the first tunnels of the route was completed. The railway played and still plays a huge part in holding this vast country together.
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Andrews UK; December 2011
312 pages; ISBN 9781908493309
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312 pages; ISBN 9781908493309
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Subject categories
- Academic > Economics > Transportation and communications > Traffic engineering
- Academic > Economics > Transportation and communications > Railroads. Rapid transit systems
- Academic > Geography > Travel. Voyages and travels (General)
- Travel > Europe > Eastern
- Transportation > Railroads
- Reference > Consumer Guides
- History > Russia (Pre- & Post-Soviet Union)
- Literary Collections
ISBNs
1908493313
9781904955498
9781908493309
9781908493316
