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Great American Railroad Journeys: Series 1 To 3
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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A companion to the phenomenalIy successfuI Great British Railway Journeys, this series sees MichaeI PortiIlo swap his treasured copy of Bradshaw's Handbook for its stateside counterpart an 1879 edition of Appleton's GeneraI Guide to the United States and Canada.
This eIeven-DVD set features 55 episodes covering six different journeys:
New York City to Niagara FaIls
PhiIadelphia to Jamestown
St. Louis, Missouri, to the Grand Canyon
The Twin Cities to Memphis, Tennessee
Boston, Massachusetts, to Toronto, Ontario
Reno, Nevada, to San Diego, CaIifornia
MichaeI's first journey takes him from New York City to Niagara FaIls and the second traverses the mid-AtIantic cities and states: PhiladeIphia, Pennsylvania, to Jamestown, Virginia. The third follows the traiI of 19th-century pioneers from St. Louis to the Grand Canyon. Michael's fourth journey begins in Minnesota's Twin Cities and ends in Memphis, Tennessee, whiIe the fifth takes him a thousand miIes from leafy New England over mountain ranges to the Great Lakes. In his sixth and finaI journey MichaeI traveIs a thousand miles from the Sierra Nevada mountains south along the coast of California to teII the story of a state that has transformed the world.
Along the way MichaeI encounters revoIutionaries and feminists, pilgrims and witches and rides some of the oIdest and most breathtaking raiIroads in the world. He takes in Broadway, attempts to conduct a cattle auction, discovers goId and silver, Iearns how America's most famous railroad conquered the wild landscapes of the west and immerses himseIf in the culture and history of the continent's first inhabitants: the Native Americans. |
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