“Andrew Martin draws readers . . . into the romance, mystery and danger of the railroad age . . . no matter how deeply Jim plunges into the poverty and filth of England’s industrial age, he never loses his sense of wonder at the monstrous beauty of its great machines.”—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times [...]
Archive of posts tagged Trains
Theroux, Paul — Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
“Brilliant. No one writes with Theroux’s head-on intensity and raptness, and his descriptions made me want to jump on the next plane to Istanbul (and also, of course, to many of the other places he evokes). I particularly loved the spectral motif, the ghosts and shadows and underground presences that flit through the narrative, giving [...]
