- Published: 15 May 2015
- ISBN: 9781847947444
- Imprint: Random House Books
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 384
- RRP: $55.00
Three Men and a Bradshaw
- Published: 15 May 2015
- ISBN: 9781847947444
- Imprint: Random House Books
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 384
- RRP: $55.00
A treasure trove of Victorian delights – an undiscovered classic of rail travel.
Michael Williams, author of On The Slow Train
A gem of a book, which entertainingly describes rail travel in the 1870s, with some remarkable similarities to today's journeys. As the author himself would have put it, "a capital volume".
Christian Wolmar
A great look at the social history of travel.
The Bookbag
[A] witty journal full of pithy observations.
CSMA Club Magazine
If you're stuck for something to read on your next train journey you'd have to go a long way to find a more diverting way to pass the time.
Scotsman
Personal and quirky, accompanied by brilliant pen drawings of the characters and landscapes encountered, these diaries give us an authentic voice from the past and take us on a journey back in time to a country at once so familiar, yet at the same time so distant … a fascinating slice of Victorian life.
Scotland on Sunday
A vivid insight into the late Victorian world.
The Tablet
Moments of beautifully clear-eyed observation… [and] superb, darkly comic little drawings.
Andrew Martin, Spectator
Much more than a travelogue, this book is a remarkable study on the way that the railway enabled modern tourism.
Nudge