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SHERWOOD,JAMES B with IVAN FALLON: : ORIENT-EXPRESS: A PERSONAL JOURNEY

LONDON.THE ROBSON PRESS,2012.

ISBN 9781849541879.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] NMINT+/NMINT.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels,with white and gilt lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp- cornered,publisher's original plain pale cream paper-covered bds with dark blue cloth blind-spine with bright,crisp, stamped gilt lettering to spine/backstrip, white+dark blue striped headband and immaculate colour pictorial illustrated eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,x- xiipp+2- 388pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,31 chapters and an appendix,48pp contemporary sepia,b/w and colour photographs in 3 blocks of 16pp apiece,between pp84/5, pp180/81 and pp276/77 respectively,an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication, and contents list/table. The story of the Venice-Simplon-Orient-Express train,the creation of the super-luxury Orient-Express Hotels group,and the person who was responsible for it all. When the fabled Orient-Express train,which had carried the rich and the famous (as well as some highly suspicious characters) across Europe in superb style for nearly a century,was taken out of service in 1977, James B. Sherwood bought two of its 1920s luxury sleeping cars at auction.He then spent $31 million meticulously restoring the 'world's most celebrated train',which was relaunched in 1982 running along the original route of the Simplon-Orient-Express from London and Paris to Venice. Sherwood,known as 'the father of container leasing',made his first fortune from the Sea Containers company that he started in 1965.The purchase of the Hotel Cipriani in 1976 an the Orient-Express carriages a year later marked his entry into an entirely new business which became Orient-Express Hotels with fifty exceptional properties in twenty-four countries.They include the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro,the Grand Hotel Europe in St. Petersburg,the Hotel Ritz in Madridi, Charleston Place in South Carolna,'21' Club in Manhattan and the Mount Nelson in Cape Town. Sherwood opened up the Far Eastern market with the launch of the cruise ship Road to Mandalay n the Irrawaddy River in Burma, and the Eastern & Oriental Express tourist train which operates between Singapore and Bangkok.He also led the way into Peru where Orient-Express Hotels now operates five of the country's leading hotels as well as the railways serving the 'lost city' of Machu Picchu,Lake Titicaca and down to the sea. Sherwood's personal journey has been a remarkable and incident-packed one,and is told here with a dry and self-deprecating wit and an astonishing eye for detail.It took him through Yale to the Far East, where as a young lieutenant in the U.S. Navy he supported American efforts to hold back the tide of Communism which was spreading through Southeast Asia.He joined Unites States Lines in 1959 and was based in France where he developed one of the first container shipping operations using the passenger liners ss. Unites States and ss. America. He ends this book with his own personal list of what makes a great hotel.No one in the world knows more about it. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015, and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.

SHERWOOD, JAMES B with IVAN FALLON**: : ORIENT-EXPRESS: A PERSONAL JOURNEY.**

LONDON.THE ROBSON PRESS,2012.

ISBN 9781849541879.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] NMINT+/NMINT.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels,with white and gilt lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain pale cream paper-covered boards with dark blue cloth blind-spine with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine/backstrip,white+dark blue striped headband and immaculate colour pictorial illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,x-xiipp+2-388pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,31 chapters and an appendix,48pp contemporary sepia,b/w and colour photographs in 3 blocks of 16pp apiece,between pp84/5,pp180/81 and pp276/77 respectively,an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,and contents list/table. The story of the Venice-Simplon-Orient-Express train,the creation of the super-luxury Orient-Express Hotels group,and the person who was responsible for it all. When the fabled Orient-Express train,which had carried the rich and the famous (as well as some highly suspicious characters) across Europe in superb style for nearly a century,was taken out of service in 1977,James B. Sherwood bought two of its 1920s luxury sleeping cars at auction.He then spent $31 million meticulously restoring the 'world's most celebrated train',which was relaunched in 1982 running along the original route of the Simplon-Orient-Express from London and Paris to Venice. Sherwood,known as 'the father of container leasing',made his first fortune from the Sea Containers company that he started in 1965.The purchase of the Hotel Cipriani in 1976 an the Orient-Express carriages a year later marked his entry into an entirely new business which became Orient-Express Hotels with fifty exceptional properties in twenty-four countries.They include the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janiero,the Grand Hotel Europe in St. Petersburg,the Hotel Ritz in Madrid,Charleston Place in South Carolina, '21' Club in Manhattan and the Mount Nelson in Cape Town. Sherwood opened up the Far Eastern market with the launch of the cruise ship Road to Mandalay n the Irrawaddy River in Burma, and the Eastern & Oriental Express tourist train which operates between Singapore and Bangkok.He also led the way into Peru where Orient-Express Hotels now operates five of the country's leading hotels as well as the railways serving the 'lost city' of Machu Picchu,Lake Titicaca and down to the sea. Sherwood's personal journey has been a remarkable and incident-packed one,and is told here with a dry and self-deprecating wit and an astonishing eye for detail.It took him through Yale to the Far East, where as a young lieutenant in the U.S. Navy he supported American efforts to hold back the tide of Communism which was spreading through Southeast Asia.He joined Unites States Lines in 1959 and was based in France where he developed one of the first container shipping operations using the passenger liners ss. Unites States and ss. America. He ends this book with his own personal list of what makes a great hotel.No one in the world knows more about it. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

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