Writing the rails
Subtitle: train adventures by the world's best-loved writers
By: edited by Edward C. Goodman.
Contributors: Goodman, Edward C., 1952-
Publisher: Black Dog & Levanthal; Distributed by Workman Publishing Co.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Railroads -- Literary collections; Railroad travel -- Literary collections
Genres: Literary collections.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Fanny Kemble - A Trip on Stephenson's Rocket, August, 1830; title: Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Celestial Railroad; title: Charles Dickens - from Dombey and Son; title: John Ruskin - from The Seven Lamps ofArchitecture; title: Henry David Thoreau - "What's the Railroad to Me?"; title: Emily Dickinson - "I Like to See It Lap the Miles"; title: Walt Whitman - "To A Locomotive in Winter"; title: Charles Dickens - "Dickens in Danger"; title: Stephen Ambrose - from Nothing Like It in the World; title: Archibald MacLeish - "Burying Ground by the Ties"; title: Mark Twain - from The Innocents Abroad; title: John Ruskin - "Fors Clavigera"; title: Lewis Carroll - from Through the Looking - Glass and What Alice Found There; title: Thomas Cook - from The Daily Mail; title: Robert Louis Stevenson - "From a Railway Carriage"; title: Thomas Chambers - from A Manual of Diet in Health and Disease; title: W. H. Davies - Hobo's Train; title: George Curzon - The Gloom and Grandeur of Central Asia; title: Czar Alexander III - "To Unite the Great Siberian Provinces "; title: Thomas Hardy - "Faintheart in the Railway Train"; title: Clifton Hood - from 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York; title: Robert Louis Stevenson - Emigrant Train; title: David Graves George - "Wreck of the Old 97"; title: Rudyard Kipling - "Romance"; title: Alan B. Govenar and Jay E Brakefield - The Railroads Create Deep Ellum; title: Hilaire Belloc - Belloc Breaks a Vow; title: Edith Wharton - A Journey; title: E. M. Forster - from Where Angels Fear to Tread; title: E. M. Forster - from Howard's End; title: Rupert Brooke - "Dawn"; title: G. K. Chesterton - The Prehistoric Railway Station; title: Sherwood Anderson - "Evening Song"; title: Siegfried Sassoon - "Morning Express"; title: Siegfried Sassoon - "A Local Train ofThought"; title: Mary McCarthy - The Cicerone; title: Katherine Mansfield - Father and the Girls; title: Katherine Mansfield - The Little Governess; title: Carl Sandburg - "Work Gangs"; title: E Scott Fitzgerald - from The Great Gatsby; title: Langston Hughes - "Homesick Blues"; title: Langston Hughes - "Pennsylvania Station"; title: John Dos Passos - Bedbug Express; title: Stephen Spender - "The Express"; title: Peter Fleming - A Crash on the Trans - Siberian Railway; title: Rebecca West - Deliverance; title: George (Henry Sandham) Behrend - Chapter 12: No Train Tonight; title: Dale Wasserman - Flipping the Meat Train; title: F Scott Fitzgerald - from Tender is the Night; title: Edna St. Vincent Millay - "From a Train Window"; title: Box - Car Bertha - from Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Box Car Bertha; title: W. H. Auden - "Gare du Midi"; title: Simone de Beauvoir - from L'Amerique au jour le jour (America Day by Day); title: H.V. Morton - from In Search of South Africa; title: Roger Lloyd - Watching the Trains Go By; title: Alfred Maund - from The Big Boxcar; title: W. A. Tuplin - The Old Great Western; title: Russell Baker - Spartan's Odyssey; title: V S. Naipaul - In the Middle of the journey; title: Paul Theroux - The Kalka Mailfor Simla; title: Michael Wood - Zambezi Express; title: Kirsti Simonsuuri - Kaamos, The Darkest Time of the Year; title: Henry Kisor - from Zephyr: Tracking a Dream Across America; title: Francois Barcelo - from The Man Who Stopped Trains; title: Scyld Berry - Adelaide to Alice Springs; title: Virginia Van Der Veer Hamilton - Of Time and the Train; title: Stuart Stevens - from Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road; title: Eric Zorn - Rolling Homefor Christmas: Riding Amtrak in the 1980s; title: Lisa St. Aubin de Teran - Love Lettersfrom the Train; title: Marda Burton - Whistlin' Through Dixie; title: Terry Pindell - Passages: The Lake Shore Limited; title: Maureen Hurley - Night Train to Moscow: Waging Peace; title: Mary Morris - from Wall - to - Wall: From Beijing to Berlin By Rail; title: George E Scheer III - Aboard the Crescent; title: Michael Palin - Pretoria,Johannesburg, Soweto, a Gold Mine, and the Blue Train to Cape Town; title: Damian Sharp - When a Monkey Speaks; title: Michael M. Lewis - Amtrak Diarist: Train People; title: William Poole - Down to the Pacific Shore; title: Paul Theroux - The "Virgin de Guadalupe" Express to Barcelona and Beyond; title: Donald G. McNeil Jr. - Out of Pretoria, by Luxury Train; title: Ian Frazier - Take the F; title: Terry Pindell - Excerpt of the Man With Fire; title: Bill Bryson - from In a Sunburned Country; title: Paul Theroux - Gravy Train:A Private Railway Car; title: Permissions Acknowledgments; title: Index.