The Book
by Kianosh Rahmani, originator of the GRN idea · English edition 2
Can all the roads of the earth be joined to one another? Read the whole book here, free, chapter by chapter, or listen to every page read aloud.
Contents
Every chapter has its own page with the full text and the audiobook side by side. Pick up anywhere; each one stands on its own.
Opening
Three short pages: the question the book sets out to answer, why it was written, and how to travel through it.
Part1
Our civilisation grew up by the building of roads. Wherever a road was opened, trade and thought and art and belief flowed after it. But the most precious cargo was the traveller himself, who went and returned, and was no longer the same person.
Part 1 overviewPart2
Seeing the world as it is: the obstacles that keep most people from travelling today, and what a world without a global rail network costs us.
Part 2 overviewPart3
In which we come at last to the road itself, and to the world it might open before us.
Part 3 overviewPart4
We come down from the sky of the vision to one short but weighty question: how? The routes, the trains, the water crossings, safety, the stations and the daily work of keeping it all running.
Part 4 overviewPart5
How much does all this cost? Where does the money come from? And who administers this global body? Financing without usury, one country one vote, and a fair share of the profit.
Part 5 overviewPart6
The network comes alive through the spirit of those who travel upon it. This part is about the human being, and the art of travelling together.
Part 6 overviewPart7
The century that is coming, the road from dream to reality, the hardest questions, and at last, the invitation.
Part 7 overviewClosing
The words the book uses, a note on how its figures should be read, the sources behind them, and the map of the whole network.
Can all the roads of the earth be joined to one another? This book is an attempt to answer that single question.Before We Begin
Download
The full book as a PDF, the two strategy documents that turn the book into a plan, and the complete audiobook.
The Global Rail Network: A Road for All Humanity. The complete English edition.
The plan in brief: five phases, the arteries and branch lines, cost and the shared model of profit.
How the network works in detail: routes, technology, crossings, governance and financing without usury.
Every page of the book read aloud, in order, with a player that remembers where you stopped.
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