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Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World --- from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief

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Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World --- from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief

An epic and revelatory narrative of the most important transportation technology of the modern world

In his wide-ranging and entertaining new book, Tom Zoellner --- coauthor of the New York Times bestselling AN ORDINARY MAN --- travels the globe to tell the story of the sociological and economic impact of the railway technology that transformed the world --- and could very well change it again. From the frigid trans-Siberian railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the Japanese-style bullet trains, Zoellner offers a stirring story of this most indispensable form of travel. A masterful narrative history, TRAIN also explores the sleek elegance of railroads and their hypnotizing rhythms, and explains how locomotives became living symbols of sex, death, power and romance.

Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World --- from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief
by Tom Zoellner

  • Publication Date: October 28, 2014
  • Genres: Nonfiction, Travel
  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books
  • ISBN-10: 0143126342
  • ISBN-13: 9780143126348