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Big Red Train Ride, The Trans-Siberian Railway By Eric Newby w/dust jacket
Big Red Train Ride, The by Eric Newby A Ride on the Trans-Siberian Railway
The Big Red Train Ride A Ride on the Trans-Siberian Railway
Eric Newby
Hard cover dust jacket
267 pages
Copyright 1978
Contents
MAP OF USSRX-Xl
Prelude
1 Under Starter's Orders7
2 The Way to Zagorsk16
3 The Way to the Volga32
4 Over the River and Into the Trees42
5 How the Railway Came to be Built61
6 The Urals69
7 Into Siberia91
8 The Flowery Steppe of Ishim102
9 Across the Barabinskaya Steppe115
10 The Chicago of Siberia127
11 The Taiga142
12 The Paris of Siberia159
13 A Short Trip to a Sanatorium172
14 The Way to Transbaikalia18o
15 The Buryats193
16 In the Land of the Buryats We Laid Down and Died205
17 The Far-Flung Fringes of the Empire220
18 Amurkabel241
19 Night Train to the Great Ocean246
BIBLIOGRAPHY255
INDEX 259
From Moscow to the Pacific on the Trans-Siberian Railway is the big train ride. It is a journey of nearly 6,000 miles, stretching over seven time zones and consuming almost eight 24-hour days. Eric Newbyin no way a conventional traveler, as readers of his previous books will know looked forward to the experience of voyaging through the plains and distances of another world, seeing it as "something in parentheses in a life which was sometimes almost too full of movement." When in 1977 he eventually set out, accompanied by a Slovene, a German and a Russian (his wife, a photographer and the official Russian "guide"), it turned out to be more and less than they had bargained for.
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