Written by Surbhi Gupta |Updated: April 17, 2019 9:09:32 am
Monisha Rajesh on travelling around the world, writing about it and why no country can match the efficiency level of Japan
In Around the World in 80 Trains (Bloomsbury, Rs 599), a title she borrows from Jules Verne’s acclaimed adventure novel, we ride along with Rajesh and her fiancé Jem (now her husband) on their 45,000-mile adventure on some of the best rail services.
This is British writer-journalist Monisha Rajesh’s second book. Earlier, she had travelled around India and the journeys made for the book Around India in 80 Trains (Roli Books, 2012). Five years later, the writer decided to hop on and off trains around the world. In Around the World in 80 Trains (Bloomsbury, Rs 599), a title she borrows from Jules Verne’s acclaimed adventure novel, we ride along with Rajesh and her fiancé Jem (now her husband) on their 45,000-mile adventure on some of the best rail services — Euro Rail, Trans-Siberian, Trans-Mongolian from Moscow to Beijing via Ulaanbaatar. They also travel around South-east Asia and Japan and then move to North America to ride The Canadian and Amtrak. Excerpts from an email interview:
Does train travel fascinate you?
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