A second collection of enthralling accounts of the most spectacular train trips from around the world?/P>Readers will be immersed in evocative accountsfhe Desert Express from Windhoek in Namibia, the stupendous Chinese feat of civil engineering that pushed a railway across the permafrost to Lhasa in Tibet, the scenic Coast Starlight train from Seattle to L.A., and a stupendous 2,000-mile trip across India, from Gujarat's parched salt flats to the lush semitropics of Assam. Following on Last Call for the Dining Car, Michael Kerr has compiled a hugely engrossing second volume of armchair travel on trains around the world, from such authors asavin Bell, John Betjeman, Jenny Diski, Simon Heffer,ervla Murphy, Nicholas Shakespeare, and Alexander McCall Smith.