Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain [Audiobook] download free by Matthew Engel
- Listen audiobook: Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain
- Author: Matthew Engel
- Release date: 2010/6/19
- Publisher: PAN MACMILLAN
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9780330512374
- Rating: 9.24 of 10
- Votes: 638
- Review by: Franco Pogue
- Review rating: 8.19 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/13
- Duration: 4H24M30S in 256 kbps (70.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-07
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, WMA, MPEG-4 SLS, MP3, FLAC, MPEG4 (compression CPIO, CBC, RAR, TAR.BZ, ZIP, TZ)
- Total pages original book: 352
- Includes a PDF summary of 38 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 28M49S (7.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Britain gave railways to the world, yet its own network is the dearest (definitely) and the worst (probably) in Western Europe. Trains are deeply embedded in the national psyche and folklore - yet it is considered uncool to care about them. For Matthew Engel the railway system is the ultimate expression of Britishness. It represents all the nation's ingenuity, incompetence, nostalgia, corruption, humour, capacity for suffering and even sexual repression. To uncover its mysteries, Engel has travelled the system from Penzance to Thurso, exploring its history and talking to people from politicians to platform staff. Along the way Engel ('half-John Betjeman, half-Victor Meldrew') finds the most charmingly bizarre train in Britain, the most beautiful branch line, the rudest railwayman, and - after a quest lasting decades - an Individual Pot of Strawberry Jam. Eleven Minutes Late is both a polemic and a paean, and it is also very funny.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Trains & Railways, Travel Writing
- Download servers: Hotfile, MEGA, TusFiles, FileServe, Torrent, Uploaded, Jirafeau, Wuala, 4Shared. Compressed in CPIO, CBC, RAR, TAR.BZ, ZIP, TZ
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 11.44 USD
- Dimensions: 130x197x21mm
- Weight: 300g
- Printed by: Pan Books
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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