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Taras Grescoe

Non-fiction specialist. Multi-award-winning author of eight books—and counting. Every week in High Speed, his newsletter, he writes about trains, transit, bicycles, and the global passenger-rail revival.

Areas of interest: railways, history, ethical eating, bicycles, the environment, travel, stories big and small. Words in The New York Times, The Guardian, Smithsonian, The Times of London, National Geographic, The Financial Times, The Atlantic, Afar, The Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail, L'actualité, Gourmet, Food & Wine, The New Yorker, Travel + Leisure, and many more. Father, husband, sometimes teacher; straphanger, bicycle-rider, bottomfeeder, densha otaku, seeker of lost suppers.

Scroll down to learn more about (and maybe order) his books, including Straphanger, The Devil's Picnic, The Lost Supper, Bottomfeeder, Shanghai Grand, and The End of Elsewhere.

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Straphanger

Straphanger

The Lost Supper

The Lost Supper

Shanghai Grand

Shanghai Grand

Bottomfeeder

Bottomfeeder

The End of Elsewhere

The End of Elsewhere

The Devil's Picnic

The Devil's Picnic

Possess the Air

Possess the Air

Sacré Blues

Sacré Blues