Strangers in My Sleeper
Rail Trips and Encounters on the Indian Subcontinent
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This book covers a lot of ground. Basically, if the train goes there, and it is in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka or Bangladesh, it is covered by Peter Riordan in this book.
However while the travel occurs through all of this geography, the book doesn't attempt to ‘cover' all of the places it goes. In this way the book is quite cleverly written. It is about the train travel, and the train system, and it is about the people in the trains, and their stories.
In other books I have not enjoyed the briefness of involvement, and have perhaps criticized covering too much ground, but in this one it works really well for me.
There is enough about the journey - the stations, the trains, the works on the trains, but there are also the side-stories, the people, the politics, the culture of the authors fellow travellers.
