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 Publishers Inc. ,U. S., 2002

About this Item

New unmarked book in crisp dust jacket. ; 368 pages.

Seller Inventory # 10963

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Writing the Rails: Train Adventures by the World's Best Loved Writers
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc. ,U. S.
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1579122051
• ISBN 13: 9781579122058
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
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  • Fiction

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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.