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Author: Eric Newby

9780330308052 | PB | pp. 272 | 1989 | Pan Macmillan | Used

The Big Red Train Ride chronicles the exciting, humorous journey undertaken by Eric Newby and his group through Siberia.

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9780330308052 | Paperback | 272 | 1989 | Pan Macmillan

The Big Red Train Ride chronicles the exciting, humorous journey undertaken by Eric Newby and his group through Siberia.

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‘There were four of us travelling to Siberia together: Otto, a German photographer on a mission of his own, who was Jewish; Mischa, a member of the agency, who had spent some time in India and who was almost certainly godless; me, as British as a Bath bun and a lapsed member of the Church of England; and lastly Wanda, my wife, a Slovene and a Roman Catholic, who dislikes Mass in the vernacular and whose observations during our long journey together in the two-berth “soft-class” compartment on the Rossiya were interesting to record. Put all these unlikely ingredients in the same compartment, stir in a bottle and a half of vodka, leave to simmer for a couple of hours, light the blue touch paper and stand clear!’

The only continuous land route between Western Europe and the Pacific coast of the former USSR, the Trans-Siberian Railway covers nearly a hundred degrees of longitude, seven time zones and 5900 miles in a journey lasting 192 hours and 35 minutes.

Terrorized by awesome Soviet conductresses, hindered at every station by officialdom and bureaucracy and hampered by the lack of palatable food and drink, Eric Newby’s party none the less heroically completed the journey from Moscow to Nakhodka in 1977. The result is The Big Red Train Ride, a book full of irreverent detail and an unstinting sense of humour.

Photographers:

Eric Newby
ISBN:

9780330308052
Binding:

Paperback
Pages:

272
Year of Publication:

1989
Publisher:

Pan Macmillan
Edition:

Reissue
Condition:

Used
Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

About the Author

Eric Newby was born in London in 1919 and was educated at St Paul's School. In 1938 he joined the four-masted Finnish barque Moshulu as an apprentice and sailed in the last Grain Race from Australia to Europe by way of Cape Horn. During the Second World War he served in the Black Watch and Special Boat Section, and was a prisoner-of-war from 1942 to 1945. After the war his world expanded still further — into the fashion business and book publishing. Whatever else he was doing, he always travelled on a grand scale, either under his own steam or as Travel Editor of the Observer He was made CBE in 1994.

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