Tales Of Travels And Trains
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Tales Of Travels And Trains
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Author : Jim Nicholls
language : en
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Release Date : 2023-03-03
Tales Of Travels And Trains written by Jim Nicholls and has been published by Austin Macauley Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-03 with Travel categories.
Jim Nicholls takes readers on a journey like no other. Visit places as remote as the Zulu battlefields in South Africa, learn about an inventor who made the first heavier-than-air flight before the Wright brothers, and take in an Easter church service in a small Portuguese town. All this and more are held together by tales of trains ranging from a tiny rail motor in the Queensland outback to a wild ride in Borneo. Experience Switzerland and America from the windows of a train. Train travel opens a window on the world, allowing a visual eavesdropping and intrusion into a country’s backyard that, if done in any other form, would probably result in arrest. Trains have it all, they convert the journey into the adventure. Real people travel on trains. Discussing with a young girl from New Zealand how one meets interesting and friendly people on such journeys, she neatly summed it up: ‘Yeah, how many nice people do you ever meet on an aeroplane?’
Tales Of Trains
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Author : Nora Dunn
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2014-11-24
Tales Of Trains written by Nora Dunn and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-24 with Railroad travel categories.
The author shares her adventures of traveling by train throughout the world.
Travel Tales
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Author : Michael Brein
language : en
Publisher: Michael Brein
Release Date : 2024-04-16
Travel Tales written by Michael Brein and has been published by Michael Brein this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-16 with Transportation categories.
Travel Tales: Trains - Terror on the Rails: Is the next book in line of relatively shorter-take samplers in my True Travel Tales book series. It's a collection of some scary close calls on passenger or freight trains while plying some of the World's most famous railways and barely managing in some instances to escape from being robbed or even harmed. Train Stories is a collection of some fearful close calls that can and do happen to world rail travelers on occasion. Mostly these will never happen to you but if they do, you may get to experience some real, raw fear including sometimes even fear for your own life on some very unsettling occasions that can potentially pop up now and again to any of us rail travelers and adventurers. This collection of True Travel Tales is the place to hear about them. I hope such things don't happen to you, but if they do, I hope you'll manage to escape and overcome. Hopefully, you'll be all the wiser for reading about such things throughout these pages. Again, Trains includes some examples of bad things that occasionally happen to travelers despite their best efforts to avoid such things. But bad things of course DO happen now and again, and the best thing to do is to of course avoid them in the first place! Hah! But if we cannot, we should certainly at least do our best to escape them. While there is no easy, simple laundry list of failsafe rail traveling strategies for always staying safe and surviving each potentially dangerous situation that may arise in your travels on the rails, there are, nevertheless, meaningful takeaway strategies to be learned from the numerous examples presented in this book that will enable one to develop and keep in mind ways to enhance personal safety and reduce the risks of potentially dangerous outcomes at times in your travel on the World's railroads. While the tales in Trains are of course not all strictly about life and death and/or robbery situations, many are doubtless about difficult, embarrassing, and otherwise potentially annoying nuisance situations that we all would do very well to do without in the first place. The scope and variety of close calls and ultimate escapes in Trains - Terror on the Rails may very well surprise you and cause you a good laugh now and again as well. Some are quite funny, like, for example, the story of soiled clothing so very badly in need of laundering that traveled over and over again throughout the rails of France. The extreme close-call adventures may never happen to you, but reading about them in this particular book in my True Travel Tales series, may give you pause: who knows? Maybe you'll never, be followed, stalked, chased, or intimidated at all in the first place or maybe in the next instance throughout your travels on the rails. Sure, you'll read stories in this book that will alert you to situations that may never even have occurred to you in the first place. But if you avoid even one potentially new (to you) travel danger by reading this book, then I will have accomplished a very useful purpose.
Tales Of The Rails
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Author : Nathaniel Adams
language : en
Publisher: Little Gestalten
Release Date : 2020-10-06
Tales Of The Rails written by Nathaniel Adams and has been published by Little Gestalten this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-06 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Jump on board a visual journey that will draw readers young and old into the magic of traveling by train, the sense of adventure and discovery as you look around at the world passing by. Learn about the trains like the bullet train Shinkansen and the most ambitious, daring and important train routes ever constructed. From Australia to Wales, each route is unique. Find out why as we travel the globe and explore the stories of the people who built, designed and ride the railways. Discover how these routes came to be and the impact they have had on history and people's lives today.
Tales From The Fast Trains
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Author : Tom Chesshyre
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-07-04
Tales From The Fast Trains written by Tom Chesshyre and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-04 with Transportation categories.
Tired of airport queues and delays, Tom Chesshyre embarks on a series of high-speed adventures across the Continent on its fast trains instead. He travels to places that wouldn’t feature on a standard holiday wish-list and discovers the hidden delights of mysterious Luxembourg, super-trendy Rotterdam and much-maligned Frankfurt.
So What S The Hurry
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Author : Jane Fishman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-10-02
So What S The Hurry written by Jane Fishman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-02 with categories.
Travel Tales
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Author : Jim Loomis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-12-07
Travel Tales written by Jim Loomis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-07 with Travel categories.
Jim Loomis is passionate about travel, especially rail travel. This engaging book is an ideal companion for armchair travelers, train enthusiasts and fellow globe trotters. "Travel Tales is a thoroughly enjoyable collection of anecdotes and storytelling that is guaranteed to both reawaken your wanderlust and raise a smile at the same time!"- Matt Foy, Head of European Rail Services, Railbookers In Travel Tales, Jim shares his adventures on train trips across North America and around the world. Best estimate: he has logged more than 350,000 miles in train travel. Jim also writes about memorable personal experiences and recounts a few stories about Hawaii's unique brand of politics, including one incident never before reported when the Emperor of Japan was unknowingly a part of a local political feud. Sit back and enjoy these entertaining tales while you daydream about your next travel destination.
Train Beyond The Mountains
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Author : Rick Antonson
language : en
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd
Release Date : 2023-04-18
Train Beyond The Mountains written by Rick Antonson and has been published by Greystone Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-18 with Travel categories.
A captivating journey blending memoir, history, and biography that takes the reader on one of the world's most famous trains and tells of carving the dramatic route it follows, while pondering other international railways through the eyes of travellers past and present. Rick Antonson has ridden trains in more than thirty-five countries—but almost everything he thinks he knows about train travel changes when he boards the Rocky Mountaineer with his ten-year-old grandson, Riley. As they wind over trestles and through tunnels, each mile of track uncovers stories of dynamite and discovery, surveyors and schemers, explorers and visionaries, and the people who helped to build Canada against the odds of geography and politics. Surrounded by a wild landscape that sparks imagination, fellow passengers recount train travels in other countries, get nostalgic for the era of steam locomotives, and consider life’s unfinished journeys. Peppered with spirited dialogue, heartrending vignettes, and intriguing anecdotes, Train Beyond the Mountains is a travelogue with urgency: to make your travel dreams happen now. As one passenger muses, "The mistake we make is that we think we have time."
Off The Rails
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Author : Beppe Severgnini
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2019-02-12
Off The Rails written by Beppe Severgnini and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-12 with Travel categories.
In this witty and entertaining collection of travel tales, an acclaimed journalist explores his obsession with trains--and what his rail journeys have taught him about culture and identity. "I've gone around the world in installments. Every trip has been a revelation. I've watched regions, nations, and continents change moods and I've met more people on trains than in forty years of airplane flights. Every train trip has been a spectacle. Trains are stages, cafés, bazaars. The only talk show that will never go off the air..." Beppe Severgnini has spent his life traveling the world, and not just because he's a journalist; he's a passionate, unflagging train buff. Off the Rails recounts some of his favorite trips across Europe, Australia, Asia, and the United States, each journey bringing readers not only to a different place but to a different time, from his honeymoon on the Trans-Siberian Express (in a four-person compartment!), to a winding journey from Russia to Turkey during the last summer of communism, to a recent coast-to-coast trip with his son from Washington, D.C., to Washington State. Off the Rails is the perfect getaway for anyone with a touch of wanderlust, who dreams of escape or just likes to laugh. Filled with memorable characters and perceptive observations, it demonstrates--hilariously--what unites us. With the world in chaos and life in perpetual fast-forward, it's always the right time to hop on board with Beppe Severgnini and meet your charming, hapless, quarrelsome, romantic, shifty, quirky, endearing neighbors.
Railways Strangest Tales
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Author : Tom Quinn
language : en
Publisher: Portico
Release Date : 2018-02-15
Railways Strangest Tales written by Tom Quinn and has been published by Portico this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-15 with History categories.
A fascinating collection of bizarre but true stories from nearly 200 years of railway history. Right from the very start, when George Stephenson’s famous Rocket knocked over and killed a government minister at the opening of the Liverpool to Manchester line in 1830, the world’s railways have given rise to plenty of intriguing stories. In this fascinating book, revised and updated with a new selection of tales, railway buff Tom Quinn explores the more bizarre side of train travel, featuring weird weather conditions, audacious robberies, hair-raising accidents, vanishing passengers, an infestation of maggots and a mysterious missing mummy. From the dawn of rail travel, when speeds of 15mph were considered dangerous to health and people mistook engines for fire-breathing demons, through the Victorian heyday of royal trains and seaside specials to today’s more prosaic leaves on the line, this whistlestop tour through railways’ long and storied history is the perfect gift for armchair travellers, history fans and trainspotters. Word count: 60,000