Luxury Trains: Splendour, Elegance & Extravagance

Luxury trains have always fascinated and excited our imaginations. This splendid volume evokes a long-lost era of travel, when luxurious railway lines teeming with adventurous passengers criss-crossed the globe. Today, companies are rediscovering rich possibilities for new palaces upon the rails as they reinvent train travel for the 21st century. Book your passage into this extravagant and inspiring world with author Simon Bertrand's Luxury Trains: Spendour, Elegance & Extravagance.

Whether comfortably seated in the restaurant car of the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express as you glide past the Venetian Lagoon, traveling through the Highlands of Scotland on the famed Royal Scotsman or admiring the ancient splendor of Machu Picchu at the Hiram Bingham bar aboard the Andean Explorer, this book traverses the continents in celebration of these wonderful locomotives. Featuring more than 25 trains including Le Train Bleu, the Pride of Africa, Royal Express and the Eastern and Orient Express, this magnificent book makes a superb gift for the travel enthusiast and anyone interested in the art of elegance and hospitality on a grand scale.

Hardcover. 256 pages. 11.25"D x 9.1"W.