Ghost Train Through The Andes

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It was not until long after his grandmother Sophie had died that Michael Jacobs was eventually permitted to read the lengthy & passionate letters that his grandfather Bethel had written her from nine thousand miles away. In these letters Jacobs discovered a remarkable story of hardship deprivation & enduring love. His grandfathers work on the railway through the Andes was exhausting & desperately lonely. He had little in common with his fellow workers & became consumed by a mounting despondency from which only his love for Sophie could save him. But as the months & years of separation passed the world in which Sophie was blossoming appeared more & more remote from his own. Michael Jacobs journey back through time takes him from a rain-swept Hull churchyard to desolate Antofagasta in Chile & to the former silver capital of Potosi. Climbing through ghostly lunar-like scenery towards the snow-capped summits of the Andes he follows the route of his grandfathers railway
- across giant rocky plateaux through terrifyingly steep gorges & valleys of tropical lushness & past grim mining townships buffeted by winds rain & snow
- to reveal an extraordinary love story.