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

Various Authors

ISBN 10: 1579122051 / ISBN 13: 9781579122058

Published by Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, Inc., New York, 2001

About this Item

Blue paper boards backed in grey cloth. Faultless book and DJ. Edited by Edward C. Goodman. My guess is that the previous owner was more interested in hardware than literature, for how could he resist Fanny Kemble, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, and dozens oif other internationally-known writers whose train experiences are sampled here ? 368 pp. with index. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 012676

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Writing the Rails; Train Adventures By the World's Best-Loved Writers
• Publisher: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, Inc., New York
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1579122051
• ISBN 13: 9781579122058
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Drawings
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Travel

About this title

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.