Tom Owen Edmunds
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These little books, from the British Broadcasting service (BBC) could lead a new travel narrative reader into further additions to their catalogues and indeed, into an obsession with the genre. It is a great place to be …..
Chapt 1 – Mark Tully - for more on Indian and Pakistan Railways the authors own No Full Stops in India, or Paul Theroux’s The Imperial Way : By Rail from Peshawar to Chittagong.
Chapt 2 – Lisa St Aubin de Teran - for more on South American rail, Theroux again with his The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas.
Chapt 3 – Clive Anderson- for more on China perhaps Simon Winchester’s book, The River at the Center of the World.
Chapt 4 - Natalia Makorova - for more on Russia and perhaps as a little antidote for her rather endearing if sugary view of her ‘Mother Russia’, Eric Newby’s expose of the real Soviet Train System, Big Red Train Ride or on a kinder note perhaps Mary Morris on traveling in the opposite direction, Wall to Wall: From Beijing to Berlin by Rail.
Chapt 5 – Michael Palin - for more on Ireland with a similar wit and personal quest, Pete McCarthy’s McCarthy's Bar
Chapt 6 – Rian Malan - for more on South Africa, although this author can not easily be bettered on his native land, perhaps H V Morton’s In Search of South Africa.… (meer)