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A giant collection of 101 train travel stories, both factual and fictional, by renowned writers from around the world and throughout history, illustrated with classic line drawings. Whether your true love is the romance of travel, great literature or the history of railways, you will get lost in this wonderfully diverse compilation of stories and extracts. Factual writers whose autobiographical contributions are featured, include: Fanny Kemble; John Ruskin; Thomas Cook; Box-Car Bertha; Paul Theroux; Michael Wood; Michael Palin; Bill Bryson; Scyld Berry; Novelists and poets whose work is featured, include: Nathaniel Hawthorne; Charles Dickens; Emily Dickinson; Walt Whitman; Mark Twain; Lewis Carroll; W.H.Davies; Thomas Hardy; Rudyard Kipling; Robert Louis Stevenson; E.M.Forster; Rupert Brooke; Siegfried Sassoon; Katherine Mansfield; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Stephen Spender; W.H.Auden; Simone de Beauvoir; V.S.Naipaul; Lisa St. Aubin be Teran; A wonderfully diverse array of selections captures romantic and exotic train experiences at home and abroad - in Britain, Europe, the Far East, North & South America and everywhere else that railways stretch.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 1st printing. A bright, clean, tight copy sans flecks, tears, stains, markings, and discoloration. "This collection of rich and inviting train travel stories by renowned writers from around the world and throughout history is a feast for the armchair vagabond. The essays, historic accounts, fiction, poetry, songs and other pieces that comprise this anthology have been carefully selected from the widest range of sources to reflect the glories of travel by rail, from a jaunt on the Orient Express to an express ride on a New York City subway." 368 pages. Book is filled with writings by Stephen Ambrose, W.H. Auden, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E.M. Forster, Thomas Hardy, Langston Hughes, V.S. Naipaul, Paul Theroux, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, and many others. NOTE: Due to the size and weight of the book additional shipping cost will be requested/required for OUT-OF-U.S. shipment in accordance with country of destination. GM5. Seller Inventory # 014551