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An inspirational and practical guide to 30 of the best train rides around the world, some long and luxurious, some shorter and simple. With space to move and no road traffic to get snarled up in, the real draw of train adventures is that you'll be immersed within your shifting environment, yet not entirely of it. You can witness your surrounds at a steady pace, and properly get to know your travel companions. The old-school ways of travel are fast becoming new again.
About the author
Tim Richards is an award-winning travel writer, specialising in rail travel, who will hop aboard any train at a moment’s notice. His work has appeared in newspapers, magazines and websites around the world, and in Lonely Planet’s guidebooks. He’s the author of Heading South (2021, Fremantle Press), an Australian rail-travel narrative; self-published travel memoir The Kick of Stalin’s Cow (2016), about post-communist Poland; and fantasy novel Mind the Gap 2014, HarperCollins). He’s a regular contributor to the 'Traveller' lift-out of Australian national newspapers, and of travel articles for Lonely Planet’s website. You can see his published work at iwriter.com.au, and he writes regularly about travel at patreon.com/timrichards.
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An inspirational and practical guide to 30 of the best train rides around the world, some long and luxurious, some shorter and simple
