Writing the Rails: Train Adventures By the World's Best-Loved Writers
Language: English
Published by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc., New York, NY, 2001
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Frank J. Raucci, Bookseller, Wallingford, CT, U.S.A.Frank J. Raucci, Bookseller
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Condition: Used - Fine
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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.
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- Title
- Writing the Rails: Train Adventures By the World's Best-Loved Writers
- Author
- Edward C. Goodman, Editor
- Publisher
- Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc., New York, NY
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1579122051
- ISBN 13
- 9781579122058
- Edition
- First Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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.
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Frank J. Raucci, Bookseller
Wallingford, CT, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since November 18, 2004
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