Writing the Rails : Train Adventures by the World's Best Loved Writers

A giant collection of 101 train travel stories, both factual and fictional, by renowned writers from around the world and throughout history, illustrated with classic line drawings.

Whether your true love is the romance of travel, great literature or the history of railways, you will get lost in this wonderfully diverse compilation of stories and extracts.

Factual writers whose autobiographical contributions are featured, include: Fanny Kemble; John Ruskin; Thomas Cook; Box-Car Bertha; Paul Theroux; Michael Wood; Michael Palin; Bill Bryson; Scyld Berry; Novelists and poets whose work is featured, include: Nathaniel Hawthorne; Charles Dickens; Emily Dickinson; Walt Whitman; Mark Twain; Lewis Carroll; W.H.Davies; Thomas Hardy; Rudyard Kipling; Robert Louis Stevenson; E.M.Forster; Rupert Brooke; Siegfried Sassoon; Katherine Mansfield; F.

Scott Fitzgerald; Stephen Spender; W.H.Auden; Simone de Beauvoir; V.S.Naipaul; Lisa St.

Aubin be Teran; A wonderfully diverse array of selections captures romantic and exotic train experiences at home and abroad - in Britain, Europe, the Far East, North & South America and everywhere else that railways stretch.