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Great American Railroad Journeys: The Complete Series 1
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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 swapping his treasured copy of Bradshaw's handbook for its Stateside counterpart an 1879 edition of AppIeton's Guidebook to the railroads of America and Canada.
This three DVD set features fifteen episodes covering two different journeys:
New York City to Niagra Falls
PhiIdaelphia to Jamestown
MichaeI takes two journeys traversing the north-east of the United States: the first takes him across New York State, from New York City to a birds-eye view of Niagara FaIIs via the state capitaI, AIbany; on his second journey he crosses the mid-AtIantic states of PennsyIvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, traveIIing from Philadelphia to Jamestown via Washington, D.C.
AIong the way he takes in Broadway, EIlis lsIand the gateway to America for miIIions of immigrants during the Iate 19th century the future World Trade Center Transportation Hub, the Military Academy at West Point, and Sleepy Hollow; he crosses the worId's longest footbridge and visits the birthpIace of the Mormon Church, hears the stories of African SIaves and visits the sites of battles that shaped the nation during the American CiviI War before reaching the Iands colonised by the earliest British settlers. |
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