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Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain

Matthew Engel

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Description:To Matthew Engel the British railway system is the ultimate expression of the country's psyche. It represents all the nation's ingenuity, incompetence, nostalgia, corruption, humour, capacity for suffering, and even sexual repression.In his attempt to understand this most British of mysteries, Matthew, half John Betjeman and half Victor Meldrew, travels the railway from Penzance to Thurso, exploring its remarkable history and its (often incredibly depressing) present. He meets the rudest railwayman in Britain, finds the most charmingly bizarre train and - after a quest lasting decades - an Individual Pot of Strawberry Jam. At once fiercely polemical and fondly nostalgic, "Eleven Minutes Late" is a very funny account of one man's love-hate relationship with the railways.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain. To get started finding Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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ISBN: 0230708986

Description: To Matthew Engel the British railway system is the ultimate expression of the country's psyche. It represents all the nation's ingenuity, incompetence, nostalgia, corruption, humour, capacity for suffering, and even sexual repression.In his attempt to understand this most British of mysteries, Matthew, half John Betjeman and half Victor Meldrew, travels the railway from Penzance to Thurso, exploring its remarkable history and its (often incredibly depressing) present. He meets the rudest railwayman in Britain, finds the most charmingly bizarre train and - after a quest lasting decades - an Individual Pot of Strawberry Jam. At once fiercely polemical and fondly nostalgic, "Eleven Minutes Late" is a very funny account of one man's love-hate relationship with the railways.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain. To get started finding Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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