THE LIBRARY
EPIC ADVENTURES
SIX CONTINENTS AND 34 COUNTRIES ON 12 INCREDIBLE TRAIN JOURNEYS
AUTHOR SAM SEDGMAN
PUBLISHER PAN MACMILLAN
PRICE £12.99 / $19.99
RELEASE OUT NOW
If you’re a regular reader of How It Works, you may have noticed that we like maps, annotated illustrations and cutaways. Even a simple line drawing can be brought to life and made a focal point on the page when the reader is directed effectively around it. Epic Adventures taps into that same idea, taking the reader on a literal journey around the world across dozens of countries and hundreds of cities on 12 different train journeys that span tens of thousands of miles.
Along the way, we don’t just stop at stations and peer out the window from a comfortable seat. Award-winning author Sam Sedgman leads us into wild and wonderful locations, annotated on beautifully drawn maps, such as the abandoned mountaintop city of Machu Picchu in Peru, along San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge and to the vital strait of the Bosphorous between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean via the world-famous Orient Express. With every train journey, Epic Adventures focuses on an interesting location somewhere along the tracks, portraying wonderfully vivid scenes in striking colours, such as the enormous and bustling Tokaido Shinkansen train station in Japan or the stark beauty of the Salar de Uyuni salt flats in Bolivia.