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PUBLISHER: Sandstone Press Ltd

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781910985700

RRP: £8.99

PAGES: 320

PUBLICATION DATE:
July 20, 2017

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Daniel Defoe’s Railway Journey: A Surreal Odyssey Through Modern Britain

Stuart Campbell

Daniel Defoe’s Railway Journeys describes the odyssey undertaken by two eccentric pensioners as they travel on every mile of railway track in the UK. Surreal and poignant by turns, Stuart Campbell describes the people they meet and the unwanted adventures that befall them. He is aided and abetted by the ghost of Daniel Defoe, writer, soldier, businessman and spy who completed his own journey in the 1720s..

Stuart Campbell

Stuart Campbell has worked as an English teacher, Advisor, Communications Lecturer, Education Manager and Consultant in the Lothians for longer than he cares to remember. Stuart is now gainfully employed as a mental health trainer for Health in Mind, an Edinburgh based charity. He has also written for the Guardian and The Scottish Book Collector.

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