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From the frigid trans-Siberian railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to futuristic MagLev trains, this is a stirring chronicle of our relationship with rail travel. Tom Zoellner examines the engineering and mechanics of rail as well as how it helped societies evolve. He also looks at America?s ambivalence about mass transit. Train gives us an entertaining history of rail transport around the world and an impassioned case for its future.
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Tom Zoellner is an American author and journalist. He is the author of popular nonfiction books, described as "genre-defying," which take multidimensional views of their subject and show the descent of an influential object through history. These boosk have been praised as "dazzling" (Entertainment Weekly) , "mesmerizing" (Booklist) , and "enchanting" (New York Post) . He is an Associate Professor of English at Chapman University and lives in downtown Los Angeles.
