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Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro by Andrew Martin
39.99 AUD
Category: TRAVEL
Andrew Martin has been described as 'the laureate of railways', having written many books with railway themes. But Andrew has always been obsessed with the Paris Metro, hence Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro, the first English history of the Metro for the general reader.Metropolitain is as styli ...Show more
Night Train to Jamalpur by Andrew Martin
19.99 AUD
Category: CRIME | Series: Jim Stringer Ser.
North East India, 1923. On the broiling Night Mail from Calcutta to Jamalpur, a man is shot dead in a first class compartment. Detective Inspector Jim Stringer was sleeping in the next compartment along. Was he the intended target? Jim should have known that his secondment to the East Indian Railway, wi ...Show more
Night Trains: The Rise and Fall of the Sleeper by Martin Andrew
32.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance, intrigue and decadence against a rolling backgroun ...Show more
Underground, Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube by Andrew Martin
29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
This is an entertaining and enlightening social history of the world's most famous underground railway. Why is the Victoria Line so hot? What is an Electrical Multiple Unit? Is it really possible to ride from Kings Cross to Kings Cross on the Circle line? The London Underground is the oldest, most spraw ...Show more
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