If you like trains, you must love reading Paul Theroux. As all good travel writers, Theroux balances crankiness, curiosity and charm. One of his best books is Dark Star Safari in which he describes his travels through the arteriosclerotic veins – trains, roads, rivers - of Africa. Theroux goes down the Nile by train and boat, through the Sudan by train and bush taxi, … [Read more...] about Reinventing the wheel