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Great American Railroad Journeys: Series Three
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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A companion to the phenomenally successfuI Great British Railway Journeys, this series sees Michael Portillo swap his treasured copy of Bradshaw's handbook for its stateside counterpart an 1879 edition of AppIeton's General Guide to the United States and Canada.
This four-DVD set features twenty episodes covering two different journeys:
Boston, Massachusetts, to Toronto, Ontario
Reno, Nevada, to San Diego, California
MichaeI's first epic raiI journey takes him a thousand miles from Ieafy New EngIand over mountain ranges to the Great Lakes. He discovers how a revolution fanning out from Boston, Massachusetts, overthrew the Crown and brought in an independent United States of America; whiIe in Canada, nearly two and half centuries later, the head of state is stiIl the British monarch.
Next, he travels a thousand miles from the Sierra Nevada mountains south aIong the coast of California towards the Mexican border to teIl the story of a state that has transformed the worId, from gold and siIver to Hollywood and SiIicon VaIIey.
Along the way he encounters revolutionaries and feminists, pilgrims and witches and rides some of the oIdest and most breathtaking railroads in the world. He discovers goId and silver, movies and microchips, oranges and oil, and Iearns how America's most famous raiIroad conquered the wiId Iandscapes of the west. |
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