Train Beyond the Mountains: Journeys on the Rocky Mountaineer

Train Beyond the Mountains is a captivating journey that blends memoir, history, and biography, exploring the Rocky Mountaineer train route and the stories of international railways. It encourages readers to make their travel dreams happen now, with spirited dialogue, heartrending vignettes, and intriguing anecdotes.

Format: Hardback
Length: 280 pages
Publication date: 20 April 2023
Publisher: Greystone Books,Canada

Rick Antonson has traveled on trains in over thirty-five countries, but his perspective on train travel changes when he boards the Rocky Mountaineer with his ten-year-old grandson, Riley. As they wind over trestles and through tunnels, each mile of track uncovers stories of dynamite and discovery, surveyors and schemers, explorers and visionaries, and the people who helped to build Canada against the odds of geography and politics. Surrounded by a wild landscape that sparks imagination, fellow passengers recount train travels in other countries, get nostalgic for the era of steam locomotives, and consider life's unfinished journeys. Peppered with spirited dialogue, heartrending vignettes, and intriguing anecdotes, Train Beyond the Mountains is a travelogue with urgency: to make your travel dreams happen now. As one passenger muses, "The mistake we make is that we think we have time."

Weight: 526g
Dimension: 159 x 236 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781771644860