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Cargando... Last Call for the Dining Car: The Daily Telegraph Book of Great Railway Journeyspor Michael Kerr
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Enjoyable armchair travel - a series of short articles about trains, which originally appeared in the Daily Telegraph. For some reason, this collection (and its successor about trains) appealed far more than a sister tome about sea travel. ( ) A book of railway journeys, as reported in the UK newspaper 'Daily Telegraph' (the 'Torygraph' to the cognoscenti). Some of the newspaper's political stance comes through in some of the pieces. However, the cover, a glorious Art Deco extravaganza of one of the Milwaukee Road's 'Hiawathas', excuses much.
Last Call for the Dining Car: The Telegraph Book of Great Railway Journeys, is not one of those guides. It might be something of a disappointment to the trainspotters; to men like Mr Peto, who, on reading Edward Thomas's Adlestrop, expressed his disappointment that the poet had not taken the opportunity to note the name and number of the engine. It is not a history of train travel, or even a history of the Telegraph's coverage of train travel (though it does record a few milestones along the way). It is a selection of some of the best writing we have published on railways and railway journeys – on everything from the Trans-Siberian to the curling BR sandwich. The anthology concentrates on the second half of the 20th century and the start of the 21st, because that is when narrative travel writing about trains came into its own, and when our colour supplements and, later, our travel sections (plump, prosperous and pre-internet) had the space to do it justice.
Ever since Paul Theroux embarked in London on the first train of his Great Railway Bazaar, railways have been a rich source for the best travel writing. This is truer than ever in the twenty-first century. As the environmental implications of relentless air travel cast an ominous shadow over the prospect of foreign adventure, the opportunity to jump on a train at St Pancras and be whisked straight to the continent offers a wonderful alternative. Train travel has assumed a new pragmatic importance as well as romance - which is no doubt why so many more tour companies are offering a great train ride as part of their holiday itineraries. Now, Michael Kerr, the Telegraph's deputy Travel Editor, has burrowed deep in the newspaper's archives and collected together the very best of its writings about the railway: here are journeys non-stop from London to Vladivostok; across the Canadian Rockies; the first train to traverse Australia from Darwin to Alice Springs; and on the teeming, crawling, travelling adventure of Indian railways. In scenes much more familiar to the British commuter, Boris Johnson discovers his "inner McEnroe" thanks to signal failure in the Midlands, and Michael Palin samples the delights of British Rail Inter-City. This is an anthology that will appeal to the railway buff and the armchair traveller alike; to anyone who has ever Inter-railed in their youth and everyone nostalgic for the days when the only way to cross a continent was by train. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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