There’s company in the next seat

Monisha Rajesh and her fiancé travel 45,000 miles by train around the world, through Europe, Asia and North America, finding company in the passengers they meet along the way.

Monisha Rajesh rides night trains around the world, from the Orient Express route to the Andean Explorer, and writes about the strangers who share a sleeper after dark.

Jack London recalls his months as an eighteen-year-old hobo in the 1890s, hopping freight trains, begging for meals, outwitting train crews and serving thirty days in jail for vagrancy.

Woody Guthrie’s partly fictionalized autobiography follows him from an Oklahoma boom town through the Depression, riding boxcars across the country and singing for the people he met.

Errol Lincoln Uys draws on thousands of letters and hundreds of interviews to tell the stories of teenagers who rode freight trains across America during the Great Depression.