Off the Rails: A Train Trip Through Life Audiobook (Free)

In this witty and entertaining assortment of travel tales, an acclaimed journalist explores his obsession with trains–and what his rail journeys have taught him about culture and identity.

‘I’ve gone all over the world in installments. Every trip is a revelation. I’ve watched regions, countries, and continents transformation moods and I’ve met more people on trains than in forty years of airplane flights. Every teach trip is a spectacle. Trains are phases, cafés, bazaars. The only talk display about From the Rails: A Train Trip Through Lifestyle that will never go off the air…’

Beppe Severgnini has spent his existence traveling the world, and not simply because he’s a journalist; he’s a separate, unflagging train buff. From the Rails recounts a few of his preferred trips across Europe, Australia, Asia, and america, each journey bringing readers not only to a new place but to a different period, from his honeymoon on the Trans-Siberian Express (within a four-person compartment!), to a winding journey from Russia to Turkey over the last summer time of communism, to a recently available coast-to-coast trip along with his kid from Washington, D.C., to Washington Condition.

Off the Rails may be the perfect getaway for anyone with some wanderlust, who dreams of escape or just likes to laugh. Filled with memorable character types and perceptive observations, it demonstrates–hilariously–what unites us.

With the world in chaos and life in perpetual fast-forward, it certainly is the right time for you to hop on panel with Beppe Severgnini and match your charming, hapless, quarrelsome, romantic, shifty, quirky, endearing neighbors.