Luxury Trains from the Orient Express to the TGV / George Behrend.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Behrend, George.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Express trains.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Blank, Fritz (donor)

Physical Description:

232 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Distribution:

New York : Distributed in the United States of America by The Viking Press,

Place of Publication:

New York : Vendome Press, 1982.

Contents:

I. The Time of the Pioneers. 1. The origins of trains de luxe; 2. The train de luxe comes to Europe; 3. Europe's first train de luxe: the Brighton Belle

II. The Triumphs of Progress. 4. The Orient Express; 5. The Rome Express and the Palatino; 6. The Nord Express and the Audacious Trans-Siberian Express; 7. Trains of kings and kings of trains: Some royal and presidential journeys; 8. The Flying Scotsman, the Queen of Scots Pullman, the Twentieth Century Limited, the trains de luxe of Mexico and Egypt

III. The Golden Age Luxury Trains. 9. An aristocrat: Le Train Bleu; 10. Dancing cars, radio, telephone, bath cars; 11. Germany's Mitropa Company; 12. The Simplon Orient Express and the trains de luxe of Turkey; 13. The Golden Arrow, the trains de luxe of Iberia, the Edelweiss

IV. The New Battle of the Rails. 14. The enemy: the aeroplane; 15. The TEEs and the TGVs; 16. New Zealand's Silver Star; 17. South Africa's Bloutrein; 18. Australia's Indian Pacific; 19. Japan's Tokaido bullet trains; 20. Amtrak and VIA's Canadian; 21. The style of trains.

Notes:

French edition published by Office du Livre, Fribourg, Switzerland, 1977.

Includes bibliographical references (page 230) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Behrend, George. Luxury trains from the Orient Express to the TGV.

ISBN:

0865650160 (cloth) :

9780865650169

OCLC:

7554170