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Fri 11 Nov 2009Engaging whistle-stop journey around the railways that changed the world
BOOK OF THE DAY:Blood, Iron Gold: How the Railways Transformed the WorldBy Christian Wolmar, Atlantic 398pp, £25
FOLLOWING HIS book on Britain’s railways, Christian Wolmar now tackles a broader canvas in this whistle-stop tour of the world’s railways. Inevitably the brush strokes are broad, with lots of human stories and whole continents covered in a few pages. He makes it clear at the start this is not a book for rivet counters.
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