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After a century behind the wheel, could we be reaching the end of the automotive age?From the Model T to the SUV, "Autophobia" reveals that our vexed relationship with the automobile is nothing new - in fact, debates over whether cars are forces of good or evil in our world have raged for over a century now, ever since the automobile was invented. According to Brian Ladd,(...)
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After a century behind the wheel, could we be reaching the end of the automotive age?From the Model T to the SUV, "Autophobia" reveals that our vexed relationship with the automobile is nothing new - in fact, debates over whether cars are forces of good or evil in our world have raged for over a century now, ever since the automobile was invented. According to Brian Ladd,(...)
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Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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November 2008, Chicago, London
November 2008, Chicago, London
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Autophobia: love and hate in the automotive age
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After a century behind the wheel, could we be reaching the end of the automotive age?From the Model T to the SUV, "Autophobia" reveals that our vexed relationship with the automobile is nothing new - in fact, debates over whether cars are forces of good or evil in our world have raged for over a century now, ever since the automobile was invented. According to Brian Ladd, this love-hate relationship we have with our cars is the defining quality of the automotive age. And everyone has an opinion about them, from the industry shills, oil barons, and radical libertarians who offer cars blithe paeans and deny their ill effects, to the technophobes, treehuggers, and killjoys who curse cars, ignoring the very real freedoms and benefits they provide us.
Autophobia: love and hate in the automotive age
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After a century behind the wheel, could we be reaching the end of the automotive age?From the Model T to the SUV, "Autophobia" reveals that our vexed relationship with the automobile is nothing new - in fact, debates over whether cars are forces of good or evil in our world have raged for over a century now, ever since the automobile was invented. According to Brian Ladd, this love-hate relationship we have with our cars is the defining quality of the automotive age. And everyone has an opinion about them, from the industry shills, oil barons, and radical libertarians who offer cars blithe paeans and deny their ill effects, to the technophobes, treehuggers, and killjoys who curse cars, ignoring the very real freedoms and benefits they provide us.
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November 2008, Chicago, London
November 2008, Chicago, London
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Transport and neighbourhoods
Transport and neighbourhoods
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As the environment becomes more fragile, existing transportation networks are more and more strained. Issues such as food miles and embodied energy in goods and products will become far more significant. Personal carbon quotas are likely to force a re-evaluation of our current lifestyles and single trips will carry greater levels of expectation. Casual long distance(...)
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As the environment becomes more fragile, existing transportation networks are more and more strained. Issues such as food miles and embodied energy in goods and products will become far more significant. Personal carbon quotas are likely to force a re-evaluation of our current lifestyles and single trips will carry greater levels of expectation. Casual long distance(...)
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Transportation, Tourism, Migration
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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June 2008, London
June 2008, London
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Transport and neighbourhoods
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As the environment becomes more fragile, existing transportation networks are more and more strained. Issues such as food miles and embodied energy in goods and products will become far more significant. Personal carbon quotas are likely to force a re-evaluation of our current lifestyles and single trips will carry greater levels of expectation. Casual long distance travel may be socially decried. Edge Futures are a series of six books that explore the impact that climate change will have on different aspects of our lives in the future. They are available to order as individual titles or as a complete set. The Edge is an innovative and creative think-tank, sponsored by building industry professions, that seeks to stimulate public interest in policy questions that affect the built environment and to inform and influence public opinion.
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As the environment becomes more fragile, existing transportation networks are more and more strained. Issues such as food miles and embodied energy in goods and products will become far more significant. Personal carbon quotas are likely to force a re-evaluation of our current lifestyles and single trips will carry greater levels of expectation. Casual long distance travel may be socially decried. Edge Futures are a series of six books that explore the impact that climate change will have on different aspects of our lives in the future. They are available to order as individual titles or as a complete set. The Edge is an innovative and creative think-tank, sponsored by building industry professions, that seeks to stimulate public interest in policy questions that affect the built environment and to inform and influence public opinion.
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June 2008, London
June 2008, London
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In the first book devoted to Rimbaud's lost voyage to Asia; novelist and critic Jamie James reviews everything that is known about the episode; from there, he imaginatively spirals into a reconstruction of what the poet must have seen, and informed speculation about what he might have done, vividly recreating life in nineteenth-century Java along the way. Rimbaud in Java(...)
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In the first book devoted to Rimbaud's lost voyage to Asia; novelist and critic Jamie James reviews everything that is known about the episode; from there, he imaginatively spirals into a reconstruction of what the poet must have seen, and informed speculation about what he might have done, vividly recreating life in nineteenth-century Java along the way. Rimbaud in Java(...)
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Rimbaud in Java: the lost voyage
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In the first book devoted to Rimbaud's lost voyage to Asia; novelist and critic Jamie James reviews everything that is known about the episode; from there, he imaginatively spirals into a reconstruction of what the poet must have seen, and informed speculation about what he might have done, vividly recreating life in nineteenth-century Java along the way. Rimbaud in Java concludes with an inquiry into what the Orient represented in the poet's imagination, with a scandalous, amusing history of French orientalism. James surprising book is a richly concentrated blend of biography, criticism and thought-travel, which brings into sharp focus this brief encounter between a great writer and a vanished world.
Rimbaud in Java: the lost voyage
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In the first book devoted to Rimbaud's lost voyage to Asia; novelist and critic Jamie James reviews everything that is known about the episode; from there, he imaginatively spirals into a reconstruction of what the poet must have seen, and informed speculation about what he might have done, vividly recreating life in nineteenth-century Java along the way. Rimbaud in Java concludes with an inquiry into what the Orient represented in the poet's imagination, with a scandalous, amusing history of French orientalism. James surprising book is a richly concentrated blend of biography, criticism and thought-travel, which brings into sharp focus this brief encounter between a great writer and a vanished world.
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October 2011
October 2011
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''Cyclogeography'' is about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and also a portrait of London as seen from the saddle. In the great tradition of the psychogeographers, Jon Day attempts to depart from the map and reclaim the streets of the city. Informed by several grinding years spent as a bicycle courier, he lifts the lid on the solitary life of the courier.(...)
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''Cyclogeography'' is about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and also a portrait of London as seen from the saddle. In the great tradition of the psychogeographers, Jon Day attempts to depart from the map and reclaim the streets of the city. Informed by several grinding years spent as a bicycle courier, he lifts the lid on the solitary life of the courier.(...)
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Cyclogeography: journeys of a London bicycle courrier
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''Cyclogeography'' is about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and also a portrait of London as seen from the saddle. In the great tradition of the psychogeographers, Jon Day attempts to depart from the map and reclaim the streets of the city. Informed by several grinding years spent as a bicycle courier, he lifts the lid on the solitary life of the courier. Traveling the unmapped byways, shortcuts, and urban edgelands, couriers are the declining, invisible workforce of the city. The parcels they deliver keep things running. For those who survive the crushing toughness of the job, the bicycle can become what holds them together.
Cyclogeography: journeys of a London bicycle courrier
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''Cyclogeography'' is about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and also a portrait of London as seen from the saddle. In the great tradition of the psychogeographers, Jon Day attempts to depart from the map and reclaim the streets of the city. Informed by several grinding years spent as a bicycle courier, he lifts the lid on the solitary life of the courier. Traveling the unmapped byways, shortcuts, and urban edgelands, couriers are the declining, invisible workforce of the city. The parcels they deliver keep things running. For those who survive the crushing toughness of the job, the bicycle can become what holds them together.
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October 2016
October 2016
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The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there, clanking on the docks just out of sight…. 90% of the goods and materials that move around the globe do so in shipping containers. It is an absolutely ubiquitous object, even if most of us have no direct contact with it. But(...)
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The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there, clanking on the docks just out of sight…. 90% of the goods and materials that move around the globe do so in shipping containers. It is an absolutely ubiquitous object, even if most of us have no direct contact with it. But(...)
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Shipping container (object lessons)
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The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there, clanking on the docks just out of sight…. 90% of the goods and materials that move around the globe do so in shipping containers. It is an absolutely ubiquitous object, even if most of us have no direct contact with it. But what is this thing? Where has it been, and where is it going? Craig Martin's book illuminates the “development of containerization”-including design history, standardization, aesthetics, and a surprising speculative discussion of the futurity of shipping containers. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/shipping-container-9781501303142/#sthash.2H0oxVN8.dpuf
Shipping container (object lessons)
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The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there, clanking on the docks just out of sight…. 90% of the goods and materials that move around the globe do so in shipping containers. It is an absolutely ubiquitous object, even if most of us have no direct contact with it. But what is this thing? Where has it been, and where is it going? Craig Martin's book illuminates the “development of containerization”-including design history, standardization, aesthetics, and a surprising speculative discussion of the futurity of shipping containers. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/shipping-container-9781501303142/#sthash.2H0oxVN8.dpuf
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January 2016
January 2016
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L'ouvrage ''Immeubles pour automobiles - Histoire et transformations'' révèle et envisage de façon théorique la mutation des immeubles pour automobiles communément appelés garages. Découvrez le potentiel de ces constructions dont les caractéristiques propres (système structurel rationnel, simplicité des dispositifs) en font des sortes de ''squelettes capables'' qu'il(...)
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L'ouvrage ''Immeubles pour automobiles - Histoire et transformations'' révèle et envisage de façon théorique la mutation des immeubles pour automobiles communément appelés garages. Découvrez le potentiel de ces constructions dont les caractéristiques propres (système structurel rationnel, simplicité des dispositifs) en font des sortes de ''squelettes capables'' qu'il(...)
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Immeubles pour automobiles : histoire et transformations
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L'ouvrage ''Immeubles pour automobiles - Histoire et transformations'' révèle et envisage de façon théorique la mutation des immeubles pour automobiles communément appelés garages. Découvrez le potentiel de ces constructions dont les caractéristiques propres (système structurel rationnel, simplicité des dispositifs) en font des sortes de ''squelettes capables'' qu'il suffira peut-être de re-programmer avec de nouveaux usages pour continuer la construction de la ville.
Immeubles pour automobiles : histoire et transformations
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L'ouvrage ''Immeubles pour automobiles - Histoire et transformations'' révèle et envisage de façon théorique la mutation des immeubles pour automobiles communément appelés garages. Découvrez le potentiel de ces constructions dont les caractéristiques propres (système structurel rationnel, simplicité des dispositifs) en font des sortes de ''squelettes capables'' qu'il suffira peut-être de re-programmer avec de nouveaux usages pour continuer la construction de la ville.
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June 2018
June 2018
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Auschwitz. Hiroshima. Cambodia’s killing fields. The World Trade Center. The mass graves of Rwanda. These places of violent death have become part of the recreational landscape of tourism, an industry that is otherwise dedicated to pleasure and escape. In dark places like concentration camps, prisons, battlegrounds, and the sites of natural disasters, how are memory and(...)
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Auschwitz. Hiroshima. Cambodia’s killing fields. The World Trade Center. The mass graves of Rwanda. These places of violent death have become part of the recreational landscape of tourism, an industry that is otherwise dedicated to pleasure and escape. In dark places like concentration camps, prisons, battlegrounds, and the sites of natural disasters, how are memory and(...)
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Death tourism: disaster sites as recreational landscape
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Auschwitz. Hiroshima. Cambodia’s killing fields. The World Trade Center. The mass graves of Rwanda. These places of violent death have become part of the recreational landscape of tourism, an industry that is otherwise dedicated to pleasure and escape. In dark places like concentration camps, prisons, battlegrounds, and the sites of natural disasters, how are memory and trauma mediated by thanotourism, or tourism of death? In Death Tourism, Brigitte Sion brings together essays by some of the most trenchant voices in the field to look at the tensions created by the juxtaposition of human remains and food stands, political agendas and educational programs, economic development and architectural ambition. How does a state redefine its national identity after catastrophic trauma? And what is the role of this kind of tourism in defining their new identity? A timely volume on an irresistible subject, this inquiry exposes the intersection of leisure with the inhumane, giving insight into how people respectfully share a public space that is both free and sacred, compelling and tragic.
Death tourism: disaster sites as recreational landscape
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Auschwitz. Hiroshima. Cambodia’s killing fields. The World Trade Center. The mass graves of Rwanda. These places of violent death have become part of the recreational landscape of tourism, an industry that is otherwise dedicated to pleasure and escape. In dark places like concentration camps, prisons, battlegrounds, and the sites of natural disasters, how are memory and trauma mediated by thanotourism, or tourism of death? In Death Tourism, Brigitte Sion brings together essays by some of the most trenchant voices in the field to look at the tensions created by the juxtaposition of human remains and food stands, political agendas and educational programs, economic development and architectural ambition. How does a state redefine its national identity after catastrophic trauma? And what is the role of this kind of tourism in defining their new identity? A timely volume on an irresistible subject, this inquiry exposes the intersection of leisure with the inhumane, giving insight into how people respectfully share a public space that is both free and sacred, compelling and tragic.
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November 2015
November 2015
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La ville sur les rails
La ville sur les rails
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«Villes et rails ont toujours été étroitement mêlés. L’arrivée du chemin de fer a façonné la ville contemporaine au XIXe siècle et le ferroviaire joue depuis un rôle de premier plan dans l’invention urbaine. Les acteurs du rail possèdent un patrimoine exceptionnel, partout en Europe. Terrains, gares, bâtiments industriels, logements, bureaux sont repensés pour devenir de(...)
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«Villes et rails ont toujours été étroitement mêlés. L’arrivée du chemin de fer a façonné la ville contemporaine au XIXe siècle et le ferroviaire joue depuis un rôle de premier plan dans l’invention urbaine. Les acteurs du rail possèdent un patrimoine exceptionnel, partout en Europe. Terrains, gares, bâtiments industriels, logements, bureaux sont repensés pour devenir de(...)
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La ville sur les rails
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«Villes et rails ont toujours été étroitement mêlés. L’arrivée du chemin de fer a façonné la ville contemporaine au XIXe siècle et le ferroviaire joue depuis un rôle de premier plan dans l’invention urbaine. Les acteurs du rail possèdent un patrimoine exceptionnel, partout en Europe. Terrains, gares, bâtiments industriels, logements, bureaux sont repensés pour devenir de véritables pôles innovants, au coeur des agglomérations comme en périphérie des grandes villes. Aux manettes : des hommes et des femmes passionnés, qui nous ont ouvert leurs portes. Nos portfolios, nouvelles, BD, reportages, illustrations se mêlent dans une invitation au voyage façon kaléidoscope. Au fil des pages, on découvre les trésors des archives ferroviaires, les pépites des plus grands architectes ou les projets les plus en pointe. On perce les secrets d’une résidence hôtelière du rail, on assiste en coulisses à de grands travaux nocturnes. On réfléchit aux moyens de contourner la contrainte, souvent forte dans ces lieux où l’infrastructure dictait sa loi. On imagine la ville de demain : durable, solidaire, belle, drôle, métisse.» -- Ateliers Henry Dougier
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«Villes et rails ont toujours été étroitement mêlés. L’arrivée du chemin de fer a façonné la ville contemporaine au XIXe siècle et le ferroviaire joue depuis un rôle de premier plan dans l’invention urbaine. Les acteurs du rail possèdent un patrimoine exceptionnel, partout en Europe. Terrains, gares, bâtiments industriels, logements, bureaux sont repensés pour devenir de véritables pôles innovants, au coeur des agglomérations comme en périphérie des grandes villes. Aux manettes : des hommes et des femmes passionnés, qui nous ont ouvert leurs portes. Nos portfolios, nouvelles, BD, reportages, illustrations se mêlent dans une invitation au voyage façon kaléidoscope. Au fil des pages, on découvre les trésors des archives ferroviaires, les pépites des plus grands architectes ou les projets les plus en pointe. On perce les secrets d’une résidence hôtelière du rail, on assiste en coulisses à de grands travaux nocturnes. On réfléchit aux moyens de contourner la contrainte, souvent forte dans ces lieux où l’infrastructure dictait sa loi. On imagine la ville de demain : durable, solidaire, belle, drôle, métisse.» -- Ateliers Henry Dougier
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February 2016
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Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. By making shipping so cheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia(...)
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Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. By making shipping so cheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia(...)
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The box: how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger
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Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. By making shipping so cheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia to become the world's workshop and brought consumers a previously unimaginable variety of low-cost products from around the globe.
The box: how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger
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Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. By making shipping so cheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia to become the world's workshop and brought consumers a previously unimaginable variety of low-cost products from around the globe.
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April 2016
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First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains - the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the(...)
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First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains - the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the(...)
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The great railway bazaar: by train through Asia
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First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental 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 him on a loop eastbound from London's Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, then back from Japan on the Trans-Siberian.
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First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental 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 him on a loop eastbound from London's Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, then back from Japan on the Trans-Siberian.
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March 2006
March 2006
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