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Book review: Travel writer Monisha Rajesh pens a love letter to the night train in Moonlight Express
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Moonlight Express: Around The World By Night Train by Monisha Rajesh takes the reader on a journey on sleeper trains throughout the world.
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By Monisha Rajesh
Non-fiction/Bloomsbury Publishing/Hardback/336 pages/$34.24
In the era of budget flights and high-speed railways, does the sleeper train – chugging along sluggishly and irregularly, sometimes even more expensively – still have a place in the modern traveller’s itinerary? British travel writer Monisha Rajesh takes 18 trips across the world and affirms the night train’s importance to travel and culture.
