A Book of Railway Journeys

A Book of Railway Journeys by Ludovic Kennedy. Published by Rawson, Wade Publishers Inc, New York, NY, 1980. 1st Stated Edition. Hardbound, Paper DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: Nr Fine in Chipped & Taped DJ. 356 Pgs. ISBN 0892561351. LCCN 80-14520. The author has compiled a treasury of wonderfully varied and memorable accounts of railway journeys in two centuries and every part of the world. He includes poetry and prose, fiction and nonfiction, the classic and utterly unexpected. Along with some of his own writing about trains and the people (or occasionally lions) one meets on them, he weaves together a spellbinding flow of the extraordinary and unpredictable, complemented by over fifty illustrations from every period and country concerned. Description text copyright 2017 BooksForComfort. Item ID 31850.