Beppe Severgnini: Off the Rails: A Train Trip Through Life
Off the Rails: A Train Trip Through Life
Buch
- Penguin Publishing Group, 02/2019
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781592408726
- Bestellnummer: 8971011
- Umfang: 224 Seiten
- Gewicht: 338 g
- Maße: 218 x 149 mm
- Stärke: 23 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 12.2.2019
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
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.