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Strangers in My Sleeper
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Peter Riordan married two loves - India and old trains - when he crossed the 'iron thread' of the vast subcontinent, taking in deserts, great rivers, dusty, dirty cities teeming with humanity, mountain ranges, rainforests, rice and tea plantations...and plenty of officious railway ticket office officials. His elegant narrative style affection for the subcontinent and her people convey his enthusiasm in an absorbing account of an epic journey that is bound to appeal to armchair travellers, Indiaphiles and railway enthusiasts alike. The book is broken down into chapters each describing a leg of Peter Riordan's journey, from Madras, across India and through Pakistan and Myanmar and back into India.Author description
Peter Riordan was born in 1957 in New Plymouth. After studying political science at Otago University he worked as a journalist in New Zealand and Australia. He and his family live in Wellington. Peter's first book, Motorcycle Masala (Hazard Press 2000), won the City of Brisbane/Singapore Airlines Asia Pacific Travel Writers Award.Stock Information
General Fields
- : 9781869661458
- : New Holland Publishers (Nz) Ltd
- : New Holland Publishers (Nz) Ltd
- : October 2006
- : 198mm X 130mm
- : New Zealand
- : books
Special Fields
- : maps, b&w photos
- : 336
- : 915.40453
- : Paperback
- : Peter Riordan
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