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Tim Richards is a freelance travel writer whose work has appeared in publications around the world, including Lonely Planet's guidebooks. He fell into travel writing after living and teaching in Egypt and Poland, and is especially drawn to the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. He's a light-packing obsessive, and loves chasing down a story with a historical angle. He lives in Melbourne's lively central business district with his novelist wife, Narrelle M. Harris.
""Tim's great railway journey heads west as much as south, but it's a handy reminder of just how much great rail travel - and colourful rail history - we have in Australia. Along the way he does the big one - Adelaide to Perth on the Indian Pacific - but also some of the unique shorter journeys, the crazy (how else could you describe them?) Gulflander and Savannahlander in Far North Queensland and finally the short run on the Australind from Perth to his home town of Bunbury in Western Australia. All the way it's clear that this is a man in love with train travel, a true rail fan."" --Tony Wheeler, co-founder of Lonely Planet ""Giant crocs, commando publicans, the ghosts of Burke and Wills. Tim's long and winding rail trek is a perfect escape."" --John Birmingham, author of He Died with a Felafel in His Hand ""Braving crocodiles, Yellow Fever (a Vietnamese-run cafe, not the disease) and rail replacement buses, Tim takes us on an epic 7,000-kilometre voyage across Australia by train. Tim's engaging portrait of Australia's people, places, history and great trains is guaranteed to give you itchy feet ..."" --Mark Smith, The Man in Seat 61
