India's Disappearing Railways: A Photographic Journey - Hardcover

Angus McDonald

9781783130115: India's Disappearing Railways: A Photographic Journey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1783130113 ISBN 13: 9781783130115

Publisher: Goodman Fiell, 2014

INDIA'S DISAPPEARING RAILWAYS is a vibrant photo-essay by Australian photographer Angus McDonald, capturing for the first time in print the sub-continent's unique narrow-gauge hill railways in all their vivid colour, character and chaos. It is an intimate and humorous portrait of life on the trains, evoking the very soul of India; and with a rare empathy and insight illustrates the lives of those who ride them, who work on them, and who live alongside them. Yet as the nation modernises, these railways - whether in the snow-peaked Himalaya, the terai of Rajasthan or the verdant Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu - are vanishing. India's Disappearing Railways records a way of life that is slowly disappearing - the Indian government is gradually converting its narrow-gauge lines - and documents the diversity of this vast and multilayered country from a unique standpoint.

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Review:

Take a vibrant, photographic journey through India on one of the country s most famous modes of transport - the railways...[a] beautiful collection of photographs, experiences and stories. --Psychologies November 14

a labour of love...India s Disappearing Railways: A Photographic Journey is more than an essay in words and pictures. If names like the Shakuntala Express, the Gwalior Light Railway or the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, stir in you a longing to up sticks and go, then do at least the next best thing and buy this beautiful book. --The Times 15 December '14

About the Author:

Photojournalist and travel writer Angus McDonald spent three years compiling INDIA'S DISAPPEARING RAILWAYS: an homage to the country he loved and in which he grew up and, as an adult, travelled and lived for eight years. His photographs and articles have appeared in leading publications worldwide and he is the author of The Five Foot Road: In Search of a Vanished China (Angus & Robertson) which documented his 1994 journey across China to Burma in the footsteps of George Ernest Morrison: 'Morrison of Peking'. Angus died suddenly whilst travelling in Burma in 2013, at the age of fifty.

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