Crocodile’s Breath
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The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City For Ever
by Christian Wolmar.
Atlantic, 351 pp., £17.99, November 2004,1 84354 022 3 Show More
by Christian Wolmar.
Atlantic, 351 pp., £17.99, November 2004,
“... a thrill and a zest to life. It is an experience in having no traditions to live up to.’ One winter in the early 1990s I took an overnight train from Georgia to Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. There were no planes: Armenia was at war with its neighbour Azerbaijan, and under blockade. Snow came through the ill-fitting windows of the sleeper as it ... ”