Book Description
All aboard! This book is your ticket to seven romances - from confessions in Iriuda to proposals in Enoshima and all points in between.
Author : Asumiko Nakamura
Publisher : DENPA, LLC
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 21,34 MB
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1634429192
All aboard! This book is your ticket to seven romances - from confessions in Iriuda to proposals in Enoshima and all points in between.
Author : Tim Parks
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 39,69 MB
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0393348822
The bestselling author of "Italian Neighbors" returns with a wry and revealing portrait of Italian life--by riding its trains.
Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 20,18 MB
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 054752515X
The acclaimed author recounts his epic journey across Europe and Asia in this international bestselling classic of travel literature: “Compulsive reading” (Graham Greene). In 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on a four-month journey by train from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. In The Great Railway Bazaar, he records in vivid detail and penetrating insight the many fascinating incidents, adventures, and encounters of his grand, intercontinental tour. Asia's fabled trains—the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-Siberian Express—are the stars of a journey that takes Theroux on a loop eastbound from London's Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, then back from Japan on the Trans-Siberian. Brimming with Theroux's signature humor and wry observations, this engrossing chronicle is essential reading for both the ardent adventurer and the armchair traveler.
Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2008-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1842329596
Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, novelist and poet, remembered for his celebration of British imperialism and heroism in India and Burma. Kipling was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907). His most popular works include The Jungle Book (1894) and The Just So Stories (1902), a collection of tales about how animals came to be the way they are today, also The Day's Work, a novel (1898). Book jacket.
Author : Asumiko Nakamura
Publisher : Vertical Inc
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 10,83 MB
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1647290139
Young author Aki Fujino appeared poised to making it big in the world of publishing. Her debut title UTSUBORA was being pitched about to a number of editors and at least one person felt it was set to propel her into stardom. However, before she could ever have her book published, the young woman was found dead. Some believe it was a suicide, but those close to her feel there is something more sinister involved in this young talent's death. Aki's death has become something straight out of a mystery. Much like the story behind UTSUBORA, there is something more to Aki, Sakura and their relationship with an author named Mizorogi than meets the eye. And it is possible that the only way to solve this mystery may be to uncover all their secrets.
Author : Rajendra B. Aklekar
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 19,4 MB
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789353332877
His stories instruct and entertain, bringing the past of Indian Railways alive in the present. Did you know that India's first steam engine never ran on tracks and was actually used to run driving mills in a factory? That the maximum speed of the first commercial train in India was 4.5 miles/hour?
Author : Richard Pike
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,92 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Railroads
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Publisher :
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Railroads
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Author : Simon Bradley
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 50,59 MB
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1847653529
Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2015 Currently filming for BBC programme Full Steam Ahead Britain's railways have been a vital part of national life for nearly 200 years. Transforming lives and landscapes, they have left their mark on everything from timekeeping to tourism. As a self-contained world governed by distinctive rules and traditions, the network also exerts a fascination all its own. From the classical grandeur of Newcastle station to the ceaseless traffic of Clapham Junction, from the mysteries of Brunel's atmospheric railway to the lost routines of the great marshalling yards, Simon Bradley explores the world of Britain's railways, the evolution of the trains, and the changing experiences of passengers and workers. The Victorians' private compartments, railway rugs and footwarmers have made way for air-conditioned carriages with airline-type seating, but the railways remain a giant and diverse anthology of structures from every period, and parts of the system are the oldest in the world. Using fresh research, keen observation and a wealth of cultural references, Bradley weaves from this network a remarkable story of technological achievement, of architecture and engineering, of shifting social classes and gender relations, of safety and crime, of tourism and the changing world of work. The Railways shows us that to travel through Britain by train is to journey through time as well as space.
Author : Monisha Rajesh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 35,70 MB
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1408869780
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER AWARD FOR BEST TRAVEL BOOK SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 'Monisha Rajesh has chosen one of the best ways of seeing the world. Never too fast, never too slow, her journey does what trains do best. Getting to the heart of things. Prepare for a very fine ride' Michael Palin From the cloud-skimming heights of Tibet's Qinghai railway to silk-sheeted splendour on the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, Around the World in 80 Trains is a celebration of the glory of train travel and a witty and irreverent look at the world. Packing up her rucksack – and her fiancé, Jem – Monisha Rajesh embarks on an unforgettable adventure that takes her from London's St Pancras station to the vast expanses of Russia and Mongolia, North Korea, Canada, Kazakhstan, and beyond. The journey is one of constant movement and mayhem, as the pair strike up friendships and swap stories with the hilarious, irksome and ultimately endearing travellers they meet on board, all while taking in some of the earth's most breathtaking views.