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World’s Great Train Journeys Adventure, Romance, and a Kangaroo or Two Natl Geo
Worlds Great Train Journeys Adventure, Romance, and a Kangaroo or Two National Geographic
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
200 pages
Copyright 2002
CONTENTS
THE PRIDE OF AFRICA By Douglas Bennett Lee Photos byTino Soriano 6
THE SIERRA MADRE EXPRESS By Scott Thybony Photos by Phil Schermeister 52
THE ROYAL SCOTSMAN By Ron Fisher Photos by Tino Soriano 86
THE EASTERN ORIENTAL EXPRESS By Phil Macdonald Photos by Chris Anderson 122
THE INDIAN PACIFIC By Roff Smith Photos by Kerry Trapnell 158
About the Contributors, Acknowledgments 196
Index 197
Copyright and CIP Data 200
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
The Orient Express...le Train Bleu...the Twentieth Century Limited...the mere mention of these legendary names summons up a kind of romance that seems now like a part of the past, long since eclipsed by jumbo jets and bullet trains that whisk passengers to their destinations with modern efficiency but little of the glamour and luxury of an earlier, more leisurely era. Yet the spirit of railway adventure lives on-and you'll find it in the pages of this lavish, dramatic book.
Join National Geographic on five extraordinary rail odysseys that give a whole new meaning to "armchair travel," for these are journeys that truly offer all the comforts of home-and then some. You'll admire the purple heather of the Highlands from a wood-paneled private compartment on the Royal Scotsman and gaze into the gorges of mountainous Mexico as the Sierra Madre Express steams from Tucson to the Gulf of California. Aboard the Indian Pacific, you'll race 2,700 miles across Australia amid a landscape so remote and desolate that a straightaway can last more than a hundred miles and whole days elapse without sight of a tree. Rovos Rail's Pride of Africa will carry you in splendor from Cape Town to Pretoria through some of Africa's most beautiful country, and on the Eastern & Oriental Express you'll savor gourmet meals as you snake through exotic Southeast Asia en route from Singapore to Bangkok. Each trip has a flavor uniquely its own; all are classic, unforgettable experiences of travel at its most inviting.
Featuring stunning photographs and a welcoming, informative text that brings exotic rail travel to vivid life, World's Great Train Journeys sweeps you into an all-but-vanished world where you'll enjoy all the style and panache of a four-star hotel as you glory in some of the most spectacular scenery on Earth.
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