256 pages
English language
Published Feb. 10, 2021 by Fremantle Press.
Freelance travel writer and Lonely Planet guidebook contributor Tim Richards decides to shake up his life by taking an epic rail journey across Australia. Jumping aboard iconic trains like the Indian Pacific, Overland and Spirit of Queensland, he covers over 7,000 kilometres, from the tropics to the desert and from big cities to ghost towns. Tim’s journey is one of classic travel highs and lows: floods, cancellations, extraordinary landscapes and forays into personal and public histories – as well as the steady joy of random strangers encountered along the way.
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
‘Giant crocs, commando publicans, the ghosts of Burke and Wills. Tim’s long and winding rail trek is a perfect escape.’ John Birmingham, author of He Died with a Felafel in His Hand
It’s a travel journal along the second-longest rail journey in Australia, from Queensland to Western Australia. (Fun* fact, the longest is from Queensland to the Northern Territory just due to the inefficient route, but that’s not as exciting)
