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Paul Theroux
is the author of several highly acclaimed books of rail travel. His next book Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town will be published this winter. He divides his time between Cape Cod and Hawaii.
Simon Winchester
first moved to Hong Kong by taking the train from Platform Nine, Liverpool Street, London, to Platform Two, Kowloon. He worked as a foreign correspondent there and in India between 1976 and 1997, then turned to writing books. His Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded will be published next April.
Ian Jack
has edited Granta since 1995. As a foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times, he traveled extensively, by train whenever he could, in South Asia in the 1970s and '80s. His most memorable journey was in the driver's cab of a steam locomotive on the long climb to the summit of the Khyber Pass in Pakistan. Last year he wrote The Crash That Stopped Britain, about the troubled history of Britain's railways.
World-renowned historian and travel writer Jan Morris
has published some 40 books including Hong Kong, a descriptive portrait of the city before the 1997 handover. She says her latest book, Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere, about the Italian city she feels is a metaphor for her own life, will be her last. She lives in Wales.
World wanderer Pico Iyer
is a longtime contributor to TIME, and the author of several books on his travels through Asia, including Video Night in Kathmandu. His next novel, Abandon, about Islam and California, will be published this winter. He still takes three trains each time he leaves his home in rural Japan to visit his favorite city of Kyoto.
Nick Danziger
has written and photographed his way through Central Asia. His 1988 book Danziger's Travels describes his adventures during an 18-month journey beyond forbidden frontiers in Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan.
Andrew Marshall,
whose Burma book The Trouser People was published in March, is a contributor to TIME. Based in Bangkok, his passion for rail journeys developed over a decade of reporting across Asia. He regards the train as the most civilized form of travel, with the possible exception of the Porsche 550 Spider.
Mike Meyer
went to China in 1995 with the Peace Corps; he writes about his years there in the upcoming memoir A Middle Country. Last summer, Meyer crossed China by rail. A recent graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, he lives in Beijing.
John Stanmeyer
has won numerous international awards, including Magazine Photographer of the Year from POYi, Best News Photography from World Press Photo, and the Robert Capa Gold Medal. He has been nominated twice for a Pulitzer.
Born in Russia in 1952, photographer Gueorgui Pinkhassov
studied cinematography in Moscow and later turned to photography. His latest book, Sightwalk, is a collection of 25 photos taken in Tokyo.
French photographer Patrick Zachmann
is fascinated by cross-cultural themes. He has won several top awards for his work on the ethnic Chinese diaspora and on prostitution
and AIDS in Bangkok. His influences include 1930s Shanghai movies.
Lise Sarfati
is an award-winning photographer whose book Acta Est featured Russia. Last month she exhibited at the prestigious Arles photo festival.
William T. Vollmann
most recently wrote the novel Argall. He has written on subjects as diverse as Bosnia, voodoo and prostitution.
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