India's Disappearing Railways: A Photographic Journey
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (929 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1783130113 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Angus died suddenly whilst travelling in Burma in 2013, at the age of fifty. Photojournalist and travel writer Angus McDonald spent three years compiling INDIA'S DISAPPEARING RAILWAYS: an homage to the country he loved and in which he grew up and, as an adult, travelled and lived for eight years. . His photographs and articles have appeared in leading publications worldwide and he is the author of The Five OTHER BOOK COLLECTION
. Angus died suddenly whilst travelling in Burma in 2013, at the age of fifty. About the Author Photojournalist and travel writer Angus McDonald spent three years compiling INDIA'S DISAPPEARING RAILWAYS: an homage to the country he loved and in which he grew up and, as an adult, travelled and lived for eight years. His photographs and articles have appeared in leading publications worldwide and he is the author of The Five Foot Road: In Search of a Vanished China (Angus & Robertson) which documented his 1994 journey across China to Burma in the footsteps of George Ernest Morrison: 'Morrison of P
India's Disappearing Railyways records a way of life that is slowly disappearing and documents the diversity of this vast and multi-layered country from a unique standpoint.Contents:Foreword by Sir Mark Tully; Introduction; The Gwalior Light Railway; The Darjeeling Himalyan Railway; The Barak Valley Express; The Aravali Railway; The Kangra Valley Railway; The Dabhoi Railways; The Shakuntala Express; The Kalka-Shimla Railway; The Matheran Light Railway; The Nilgiri Mountain Railway; Postscript. Accompanies the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) exhibition of the same name which opened 3 December 2014Includes a foreword by Sir Mark Tully, the BBC's Chief of Bureau in India for 20 years - that evokes the very soul of IndiaIt is an intimate and humorous portrait capturing for the first time in print the sub-continent's unique narrow-gauge hill railways in all their beauty, joy and pathosAs the nation modernises, government funding for these railways is stopping and the railways will vanish forever
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