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Tucson native chugs in to town for book reading

  • Zoellner riding the rails in Peru.
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Journalist, author and Tucson native Tom Zoellner will give a reading from his new book "Train" at Antigone Books, 411 N. 4th Ave, on Friday evening.

In "Train: Riding the Rails that Created the Modern World, from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief,"  Zoellner takes a look at railroad travel in seven different countries.

Zoellner is the author of four other non-fiction books, including "Uranium," winner of the 2011 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award, and "A Safeway in Arizona," about the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords and 18 other people on Jan. 8, 2011.

If you go

  • Tom Zoellner reading from "Train"
  • Friday, 7 p.m.
  • Antigone Books, 411 N. 4th Ave.
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