Ghost Train Through the Andes - On My Grandfather's Trail in Chile and Bolivia

John Murray, 2007. Pages foxed/yellowing at edges, otherwise good secondhand condition.

Almost a hundred years after his railway engineer grandfather left his beloved Sophie and embarked on a long, lonely passage to a remote corner of South America, Michael Jacobs sets off to follow in his footsteps. Climbing through ghostly, lunar-like scenery towards the snow-capped summits of the Andes, Jacobs follows the route of his grandfather's railway - across giant rocky plateaux, through terrifingly steep gorges and valleys of tropical lushness, and past grim mining townships buffeted by wind, rain and snow - to reveal an extraordinary love story...