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Train Beyond the Mountains - Journeys on the Rocky Mountaineer (Hardcover)
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Train Beyond the Mountains - Journeys on the Rocky Mountaineer (Hardcover)
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A captivating journey blending memoir, history, and biography that
takes the reader on one of the world's most famous trains and tells
of carving the dramatic route it follows, while pondering other
international railways through the eyes of travellers past and
present. Rick Antonson has ridden trains in more than thirty-five
countries-but almost everything he thinks he knows about train
travel changes when he boards the Rocky Mountaineer with his
ten-year-old grandson, Riley. As they wind over trestles and
through tunnels, each mile of track uncovers stories of dynamite
and discovery, surveyors and schemers, explorers and visionaries,
and the people who helped to build Canada against the odds of
geography and politics. Surrounded by a wild landscape that sparks
imagination, fellow passengers recount train travels in other
countries, get nostalgic for the era of steam locomotives, and
consider life's unfinished journeys. Peppered with spirited
dialogue, heartrending vignettes, and intriguing anecdotes, Train
Beyond the Mountains is a travelogue with urgency: to make your
travel dreams happen now. As one passenger muses, "The mistake we
make is that we think we have time."
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