The Big Red Train Ride

I really wanted to like this book. In the end it was hard work. The book suffers because in 1977, foreigners were allowed to stop only in three places on the Trans-Siberan: Novosibirsk, Irkutsk and Khabarovsk. Foreigners were also not allowed at the final destination -Vladivostok, and had to end the journey at the ferry / fishing port of Nakhodka.
Sadly, due to the lack of possibility on the journey, the book gets bogged down in history and extracts of other traveller's tales. Still some amusing anecdotes in there, just a bit of a battle to get through.