FEAST OR FAMINE

  Beyond the Boarding Pass : Quirks of Global Journeys, Fun Facts and Trivia Across Various Modes of Transportation by Jaylen Hayes (2024) is a guide to what can or cannot happen when travelling.   The book has seven chapters, covering: airports, railways, ships and ferries, buses and coaches, alternative rides (bikes to balloons), taxis, and finally travel tips and hacks – all related to the types of transportation – in other words, how people get from A to B to C in a direct or indirect route.   The book is an accumulation of both facts and stories that make travel fun, frustrating, or fraught with problems.    There is much in this jam-packed book to describe all the parts that I liked, because there is an interesting, amusing, extraordinary, absurd, or revealing fact on every page.    Perhaps the chapter on alternative rides is one for me to begin with because it was an unexpected category but fits well in the theme of this book. It includes cable...