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Download or read book Night Trains written by Andrew Martin and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance, intrigue and decadence against a rolling background of dramatic landscapes. The reality could often be as thrilling: early British travellers on the Orient Express were advised to carry a revolver (as well as a teapot). In Night Trains, Andrew Martin attempts to relive the golden age of the great European sleeper trains by using their modern-day equivalents. This is no simple matter. The night trains have fallen on hard times, and the services are disappearing one by one. But if the Orient Express experience can only be recreated by taking three separate sleepers, the intriguing characters and exotic atmospheres have survived. Whether the backdrop is 3am at a Turkish customs post, the sun rising over the Riviera, or the constant twilight of a Norwegian summer night, Martin rediscovers the pleasures of a continent connected by rail. By tracing the history of the sleeper trains, he reveals much of the recent history of Europe itself. The original sleepers helped break down national barriers and unify the continent. Martin uncovers modern instances of European unity - and otherwise - as he traverses the continent during 'interesting times', with Brexit looming. Against this tumultuous backdrop, he experiences his own smaller dramas, as he fails to find crucial connecting stations, ponders the mystery of the compartment dog, and becomes embroiled in his very own night train whodunit.
Book Synopsis The Sunset Limited by : Cormac McCarthy
Download or read book The Sunset Limited written by Cormac McCarthy and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-02-04 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted play from the legendary Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian. 'The Sunset Limited grips from the very first page' – Financial Times A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. In that small apartment the two men, known as 'Black' and 'White', begin a conversatino that leads each back through his own history. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con in recovery for drug addiction, is the more hopeful of the men. He is, however, desperate to convince White of the power of faith – while White is desperate to deny it. Between them, they hope to discover the meaning of life itself. Praise for Cormac McCarthy: ‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren 'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series '[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' – Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain
Download or read book Railroad Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Black's Road and Railway Guide to England and Wales written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railroad Age Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steam Trains written by Colin Maggs and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of steam in Britain from the Rocket in 1829, through to the last main line locomotive in the 1960s.
Book Synopsis Black's Guide to the Counties of Hereford & Monmouth by : Adam and Charles Black (Firm)
Download or read book Black's Guide to the Counties of Hereford & Monmouth written by Adam and Charles Black (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Black's Guide to Brighton and Vicinity by : Adam and Charles Black (Firm)
Download or read book Black's Guide to Brighton and Vicinity written by Adam and Charles Black (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Black's Guide to the Channel Islands written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Speaker written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Routes and Rates for Summer Tours ... by : Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad Company
Download or read book Routes and Rates for Summer Tours ... written by Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Race to the North by : David Wragg
Download or read book The Race to the North written by David Wragg and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-01-21 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, some of Britains leading main-line railway companies threw caution to the winds in an attempt to provide the fastest passenger express services between London and Scotland. These became known as the races to the north. There were two phases, in 1888 and 1895, and they spurred the building of new bridges across the Firth of Forth and Firth of Tay.David Wraggs gripping, detailed narrative tells the story of this epic engineering and commercial competition. He concentrates on the determination of the railway companies to see who could provide the fastest schedule between London and the main Scottish cities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth, Dundee and Aberdeen.Casting aside their early policy of co-existence on these prestigious and lucrative routes, the West Coast and East Coast companies were drawn into a period of intense, highly publicized rivalry as they sought to dominate the market. David Wragg gives an insight into the conduct of the well-publicized highs and tragic lows of this dramatic story the extension of the lines to the far north, the building of the Tay and Forth bridges including the collapse of the first Tay bridge with 72 fatalities and the repeated bids by the companies to cut the journey times.While he describes the public side of this fascinating story, David Wragg fills in the background, which is no less interesting the pioneering engineering of the steam age, the massive construction projects, the cut-throat battle for passengers and freight and the deep inter-company rivalries that drove the rapid development of the railways during the Victorian period.
Book Synopsis Belgravia by : Mrs. M. E. (Braddon) Maxwell
Download or read book Belgravia written by Mrs. M. E. (Braddon) Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Report of the Postmaster General on the Post Office by : Great Britain. Post Office
Download or read book Report of the Postmaster General on the Post Office written by Great Britain. Post Office and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
