On the Shadow Tracks
- Author Clare Hammond
- Narrator Clare Hammond
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date 6 June 2024
- Run Time 9 hours and 9 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Asian history, Biography and non-fiction prose, Colonialism and imperialism, History, Military history, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Trains and railways: general interest.
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In 2016, while working as a journalist in Yangon, Clare Hammond discovered an obscure map that showed a web of new railways spanning the length and breadth of the country - railways not shown on any other publicly available maps. She was determined to uncover the railways' origins, purpose, and most of all, the silence that surrounded them. She would spend three months travelling on these mysterious railways, and the next five years piecing their story together.
Her journey would take her from Myanmar's tropical south to the embattled mountain towns that border India and China. In dilapidated carriages, along tracks in disrepair, through contested ethnic states and former sites of forced labour, visiting temples, tea shops and festivals, Clare encountered a colourful and contradictory Myanmar through the stories of its people. Simultaneously a lush and evocative travelogue, an unsparing account of Myanmar's recent history, and an astonishing, conversation-shifting engagement with Britain's colonial legacy, On the Shadow Tracks is that rare and necessary thing: a book that finds and tells the truth.
©2024 Clare Hammond (P) 2024 Penguin Audio
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