Category:
Trains & Train Journeys
ISBN Number:
978 81 7436 913 0
Blurb of Book:
A wonderfully wry and witty debut. Crackles and sparks with life an exploding box of fireworks - William Dalrymplee
Name of Publisher:
Roli Books (Lotus Collection)
Edition of the Book:
Fifth Impression
Print Year:
2016
Print Location:
New Delhi, India
Where to buy:
Bookshops in India, Roli Books
In 1991, the author's family uprooted from Sheffield to Chennai in the hope of making India their home. Two years later fed up with soap eating rats, stolen human hearts and a creepy Colonel across the road, they returned to England with a bitter taste in their mouths. Twenty years later the author came back. Taking a page out of Jules Verne's classic tale, Around the world in 80 days, the author embarks on a 40,000 km adventure around India in 80 trains. Travelling a distance equivalent to the circumference of the earth, she lifted the veil on a country that had become a stranger to her.
Delightful tales, of rail journeys around India told with passion, in fulfilling a wanderlust to get know a country.