Tom Chesshyre is the author of thirteen travel books. He has travelled more than 40,000 miles around the world for his train books, which have included Slow Trains Around Spain: A 3,000-Mile Adventure on 52 Rides and Ticket to Ride: Around the World on 49 Unusual Train Journeys. His book writing has also taken him across North Africa after the Arab Spring, round the "dark side" of the Maldives on cargo ships, along the length of the River Thames, around the Lake District on a long hike, and on a journey through "unsung Britain" (for To Hull and Back). He worked on the travel desk of The Times for 21 years and is now freelance, contributing to the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday and The New European magazines. He lives in London.
Bristling with vitality, Chesshyre's new tome is a joyfully
rudderless romp through Europe's railway system... It's a work of
brilliant geekery, but for the most part it's a love letter to the
continent, a Eurocentric work for our Brexit-beleaguered times
*National Geographic, Top Ten Travel Books for Summer 2019*
He casually, and beautifully, bats away the earnestness of travel
literature
*The Literary Times Supplement - Caroline Eden*
There is something nostalgic about the clatter of wheels and
sleeper trains... by the end, the reader will struggle to resist
the urge to follow his lead.
*The Economist*
We love reading about train travel... Pick up Slow Trains to Venice
by Tom Chesshyre
*Sunday Times Travel Magazine*
An engaging picaresque series of encounters and reflections on
Europe as many of its countries struggle to find common ground amid
the populist reaction to its dilemmas
*Anthony Lambert, author of Lost Railway Journeys from Around the
World*
At a time when European unity is fraying at an alarming rate, here
comes Tom Chesshyre's travelogue to remind us of the virtues of
connectedness. Better still, his explorations are made by train,
and use the Continent's historic, unpredictable routes from the era
before high-speed rail. A diverting and thought-provoking read.
*Simon Bradley, author of The Railways*
Beethoven with attitude, masochism in Lviv, the smell of cigarettes
in the corridor, adventurous great aunts who travelled on the roofs
of crowded trains, Carniolan pork-garlic sausage, Jimi Hendrix in
the Slovene Ethnographic Museum and, of course, the 13:49 from
Wroclaw. Tom Chesshyre pays homage to a Europe that we are leaving
behind and perhaps never understood. Che bella corsa! He is the
master of slow locomotion.
*Roger Boyes, The Times*
Far from being just another train travelogue, Slow Trains to Venice
combines reports from a Europe on the brink of major change with
amusing vignettes... An essential read.
*Tom Otley, editor of Business Traveller magazine*
Like the trains he travels on, Tom Chesshyre meanders through
Europe and the result is entertaining and enjoyable.
*Christian Wolmar, author of Blood, Iron and Gold: How the Railways
Transformed the World*
Meander through Europe in the excellent company of Tom Chesshyre,
who relishes the joys of slow travel and seizes every opportunity
that a journey presents: drifting as a flâneur in Lille, following
in the tracks of James Joyce in a literary exploration of
Ljubljana, cosseted in luxury on a trans-Ukrainian express, all
decorated with a wealth of detail and intrigue.
As Tom discovers, it's not just Brexit Britain - the whole
Continent is in disarray. But at least Europe's railways still bind
us together.
*Simon Calder, The Independent*
One of the most engaging and enterprising of today's travel
writers, Chesshyre has an eye ever-alert for telling detail and
balances the romance of train travel with its sometimes-challenging
realities... but for all its good humour, the book impresses as a
poignant elegy for the Europe which Britain once embraced
*Stephen McClarence, travel writer, Daily Telegraph and The
Times*
Bristling with vitality, Chesshyre's new tome is a joyfully
rudderless romp through Europe's railway system... It's a work of
brilliant geekery, but for the most part it's a love letter to the
continent, a Eurocentric work for our Brexit-beleaguered times
*National Geographic, Top Ten Travel Books for Summer 2019*
He casually, and beautifully, bats away the earnestness of travel
literature
*The Literary Times Supplement - Caroline Eden*
There is something nostalgic about the clatter of wheels and
sleeper trains... by the end, the reader will struggle to resist
the urge to follow his lead.
*The Economist*
We love reading about train travel... Pick up Slow Trains to Venice
by Tom Chesshyre
*Sunday Times Travel Magazine*
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