The New Yorker ‘Journeys’ Issue: Extreme Commuters, the Beijing-Lhasa Train and More

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  04.10.07 | 7:40 AM ET

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Another New Yorker ‘Journeys’ issue, another page turner. It includes a What are they thinking? piece on commuters who travel several hours a day each way for work, a lengthy examination of the impact the Beijing-Lhasa train might have on Tibet and a terrific Orhan Pamuk essay about his first passport. “[A] passport is not a document that tells us who we are,” he writes. “but a document that shows what other people think of us.”

Unfortunately, the only story from the issue currently online is Alec Wilkinson’s look at parkour.

Tags: Train Travel, News and Briefs


1 Comment for The New Yorker ‘Journeys’ Issue: Extreme Commuters, the Beijing-Lhasa Train and More

Tenzing lo 04.10.07 | 1:54 PM ET

The official website for the train to tibet run by non-chineses is

http://www.chinatibettrain.com

unbiased info!

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