Around the World in 80 Trains: A 45,000-Mile Adventure

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I liked it for the updates on conditions in Tibet, Sinkiang, North Korea, as well as a look - albeit fleeting - on life in the hinterland of Russia and the ex-Soviet Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan, as well as an interesting look at life today in Mongolia. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. Then she dismisses the entire continent of Europe and the first 15 trains of her journey in one chapter and tells us how painfully dull and mundane it all was.

Around the World in 80 trains is about the author's journey as she sets out to cover 45,000 miles across the World.Rajesh offers a wonderfully vivid account of life, history and culture in a book that will make you laugh out loud - and reflect on what it means to be a global citizen - as you whirl around the world in its pages. She took out time to reach out to the surviving family members of The Hiroshima and Nagasaki blasts and has listed in detail about the Japanese technology and traditions including the one with the Geisha. I persevered to the end of the book in hope of getting some useful insights, but sadly they were few and far between. I'd recommend this book to anyone interested in train travel - this book is about a truly epic train odyssey! Prepare for a very fine ride' Michael PalinFrom 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.

Monisha tells us how much she loves train travel, it's in her blood, she just has to drop everything and travel the world for 7 months by train.There's not much evidence that she succeeded, though -- maybe a little, in Tibet -- so there's no great victory for journalism here.