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A Train Journey - A pop-up history of rail travel (Hardcover)
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A Train Journey - A pop-up history of rail travel (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R451
Discovery Miles 4 510
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A Train Journey takes readers on an international journey through
the history of trains and brings the locomotives to life in pop-up
detail. Created by the world’s leading paper engineer and art
director, Gérard Lo Monaco, the adventure begins in 1829 with
Robert Stephenson’s ‘Rocket’ locomotive, the most advanced of
its day, which operated on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
Our journey hits new heights to investigate Manhattan’s elevated
railroad, whose cars were the first to be manufactured out of
stainless steel. Readers will see the trains buzzing and alive
among 1900 New York’s distinctive high-rises. Skipping forward to
the 1920s, readers will marvel at what was the most powerful
locomotive on the London and North Eastern Railway: the ‘Flying
Scotsman’, providing a non-stop daily service from London to
Edinburgh. Readers then encounter the glamour of the 1930s and 40s
on the infamous Orient Express as it travels between Paris and
Istanbul. Finally, the reader is taken on a sprint to the present
to see Japan’s Shinkansen ‘Bullet’ and China’s CHR 400
high-speed intercity trains, travelling at an impressive 320 km/hr!
Designed in a beautifully layered pop-up format, with information
about each train integrated into the artwork, A Train Journey
marvels at, and is a marvel of, engineering over the centuries.
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