Writing the Rails; Train Adventures by the World's Best-Loved Writers

Goodman, Edward C. (editor)

ISBN 10: 1579122051 / ISBN 13: 9781579122058

Published by Black Dog & Leventhal, New York

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[1-57912-205-1] 2001. (Square hardcover) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 368pp. Illustrations, acknowledgements. There is a 1 / 2-inch closed tear to the bottom edge of the front panel of the dust jacket. "The 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 on the glories of travel by rail". (Travel, Anthologies, Essays, Fiction, Poetry, Railways, Trains, Travel).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Writing the Rails; Train Adventures by the World's Best-Loved Writers
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal, New York
• ISBN 10: 1579122051
• ISBN 13: 9781579122058
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Travel and Adventure

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Synopsis

Rich and inviting, this collection of 101 train travel stories, both fact and fiction, by renowned writers from around the world and throughout history, is a feast for the armchair vagabond.

The stories, essays, historic accounts, poetry, songs and other pieces that comprise this impressive anthology have been carefully selected from the widest range of sources to reflect the glories of travel by rail, from the Orient Express to the New York City subway. So many of the world's great writers have celebrated train travel, and here they are in one collection-Mary McCarthy on the Italian railways; Paul Theroux on the old Patagonia Express; Lewis Carroll from Through the Looking Glass; F. Scott Fitzgerald from Tender Is the Night; Ian Fleming, Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Rudyard Kipling-by turns funny, exciting and moving, and a joy to read throughout.

Whether your true love is travel, great literature or trains, you'll get lost in this eclectic and exotic compilation that extends to all parts of the globe and deep into the imaginations of our finest writers.