num_pages: 228
description: The Great Railway Adventure by Christopher Portway is a feast of stories that recount a lifetime's experience of travelling around the world by train. In it he regales us with accounts of his journey on the original Orient Express The Trans-Siberian Express and the Taurus Express to name a few.Not all his journeys are on such famed or civilised trains however others find him in humble little coaches in Asia and South America in stifling compartments as he crosses Pakistan's Baluchistan Desert or shivering with cold as he rides the world's highest railway line in Peru.In Christopher Portway we have a traveller of the old tradition: someone who enjoys travel for no other purpose that for its own sake.
language: English
title: The great railway adventure
publisher: Oxford Illustrated Press