books: train journeys

books: train journeys

books:

Train journeys

First Class: Legendary Train Journeys Around the World

Patrick Poivre d'Arvor

Vendome Press, 2007

A truly elegant book showcasing eleven fabled railroad lines
"First Class: Legendary Train Journeys Around The World" by Patrick Poivre d'Arvor is a truly elegant book showcasing eleven fabled railroad lines during the golden age of train travel around the world. Featured among these iconic railroads are the Toy Train of ...

Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road (Traveler)

Stuart Stevens

Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994

It's all about the journey
Stevens provides a humorous recounting of a romp through Western China attempting to follow the trail of 1936 travelers Fleming an Maillart along the ancient Silk Road. Night Train to Turkistan is entertaining for its quirky characters including infuriating ...

The Donner Party Chronicles: A Day-by-Day Account of a Doomed Wagon Train, 1846-47

Frank Mullen

Nevada Humanities Committee, 1997

This is the Donner Party book I've been looking for!
The full-color, glossy photographs of major landmarks and points of interest along the Emigrant Trail from Springfield, MO to Johnson's Ranch in Bear Valley are stunning. The color photos, all taken by Marilyn Newton, are grouped together in the beginning of the ...

Julie's Journey (American Girls Collection)

Megan McDonald

American Girl, 2007

Bicentennial Pioneer
The summer after fourth grade, Julie gets packing. She makes sure to include all of her Little House books alongside a pioneer dress and other stuff. It's 1974, and Julie and her older sister Tracy are getting together with their cousins, aunt, and uncle to take part ...

Sacred Sea: A Journey to Lake Baikal

Peter Thomson

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

Sacred Sea
Sacred Sea: A Journey to Lake Baikal is at once a deeply engaging memoir, highly entertaining travel book (and boys' adventure), and a remarkably acute (and non-polemic) cautionary tale about the environment. A few years back, Peter Thomson, then editor and ...

A Journey into Florida Railroad History (Florida History and Culture)
GREGG M. TURNER

University Press of Florida, 2008

Meticulously researched and richly illustrated--including many never-before-published images--A Journey into Florida Railroad History is a comprehensive, authoritative history of the subject. Written by one of the nation's foremost authorities on Florida railroads, it explores all the key players and companies, and every significant period of ...

The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas

Paul Theroux

Mariner Books, 1979

you can forgive Paul Theroux
A remark that one reads often about Paul Theroux is that he is grouchy, critical of the people he meets, and generally unpleasant. Some readers seem to suggest that this makes him a worse traveller, not being pure-of-heart or sufficiently open-minded. On the other ...

Wagon Train (All Aboard Reading)

S. A. Kramer

Grosset & Dunlap, 1997

Wagon Train
I liked Wagon Train by Sydelle Kramer because it is about people travelling. I liked when they went through the water and I liked the storms they had in the book. I liked the pictures expecially the one with the family in the wagon with the dog in it. I like reading ...

Outlasting the Trail: The Story of a Woman's Journey West

Mary Barmeyer O'Brien

TwoDot, 2005

Outlasting the Trail
Outlasting the Trail: The Story of a Woman's Journey West Excellent. So real that I felt like I was right there watching Mary and her family during each crisis and each small joy. Including and using Mary Rockwood Powers' own letters for this story created the sense of ...

Oregon Trail Stories: True Accounts of Life in a Covered Wagon

David Klausmeyer

TwoDot, 2003

Respectable, educative of western emigration
I always enjoy reading personal accounts of the Oregon/California Trail. Taken from actual diaries, letters, memoirs and reminisces, these are true to life experiences from the pioneers themselves. A few to mention, without being overly exhaustive would be: Catherine ...

All Aboard With E.M. Frimbo: World's Greatest Railroad Buff (Kodansha Globe)

Rogers E. M. Whitaker, Tony Hiss

Kodansha Amer Inc, 1997

An infectiously enjoyable ode to the joys of train travel
I was the editor of the greatly expanded 1997 edition of this railroading classic of the 1970s. E.M. Frimbo was the alter ego of Whitaker, a writer who spent more than 50 years at the New Yorker, one of the original coterie that included A.J. Liebling, Joseph ...

Full Circle: One Man's Journey by Air, Train, Boat and Occasionally Very Sore Feet Around the 50,000 Miles of ...

Michael Palin

St. Martin's Griffin, 2000

Either spend big bucks and go yourself, or buy this book!
Michael Palin (of Monty Python fame) is more than funny: he's a perceptive and compassionate traveller! I loved his first two BBC travel series and their companion books, so when one day in Seattle, I read in the paper that the next evening he would begin a third, I ...

The Wagon Train (Life in the Old West: a Bobbie Kalman Series)
Bobbie Kalman

Crabtree Publishing Company, 1998

Filled with hopes and dreams, the first immigrants to the west loaded up their wagons and headed out to the frontier in search of a new life. Children will learn about the difficult journey by wagon train and how settlers arrived at their final destination.

Railways' Strangest Journeys: Curious and colourful journeys from over 150 years of rail travel (Strangest)
Tom Quinn

Robson Books, 2003

This fascinating collection of entertaining tales from as far afield as Europe, India and America reveals unusual and unconventional railway journeys across the centuries, including ghost trains, vanishing passengers and trains fitted with homing pigeons instead of a communication cord. 'Railway's Strangest Journeys' takes you on a journey from ...

By Train to Shanghai: A Journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway
William, J. Gingles

AuthorHouse UK DS, 2006

This is a compelling narrative of a long train journey and an illuminating insight from the shadows of the past, descending from the mountains, the unbroken silence of the forest, intertwined with the people who shaped historical events along the route. From the former Tsarist Russian capital of St. Petersburg, this 10,000 kilometre ...