Afternoon of an Evening Train

Afternoon of an Evening Train
Author: Gregory O'Brien
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780864735010

A very personal map of New Zealand--from Waiheke Island to Dunedin via the Waihi Beach Dump and Wellington's storm sewers--is laid out in this collection of poems whose emotional territory is as vast as it is geographical. Images of busy intersections, rambling sideshows, and towering cathedrals provide an exhilarating sense of commuter traffic--by road, rail, or air--between known and unknown worlds.

Night Trains

Night Trains
Author: Andrew Martin
Publisher: Profile Books
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2017-02-09
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1782832122

Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance, intrigue and decadence against a rolling background of dramatic landscapes. The reality could often be as thrilling: early British travellers on the Orient Express were advised to carry a revolver (as well as a teapot). In Night Trains, Andrew Martin attempts to relive the golden age of the great European sleeper trains by using their modern-day equivalents. This is no simple matter. The night trains have fallen on hard times, and the services are disappearing one by one. But if the Orient Express experience can only be recreated by taking three separate sleepers, the intriguing characters and exotic atmospheres have survived. Whether the backdrop is 3am at a Turkish customs post, the sun rising over the Riviera, or the constant twilight of a Norwegian summer night, Martin rediscovers the pleasures of a continent connected by rail. By tracing the history of the sleeper trains, he reveals much of the recent history of Europe itself. The original sleepers helped break down national barriers and unify the continent. Martin uncovers modern instances of European unity - and otherwise - as he traverses the continent during 'interesting times', with Brexit looming. Against this tumultuous backdrop, he experiences his own smaller dramas, as he fails to find crucial connecting stations, ponders the mystery of the compartment dog, and becomes embroiled in his very own night train whodunit.

Report

Report
Author: Commonwealth Shipping Committee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 860
Release: 1909
Genre: Shipping
ISBN:

Sessional Papers

Sessional Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
Total Pages: 672
Release: 1903
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN: