A companion to the phenomenally successful Great British Railway Journeys, this series sees Michael Portillo swapping his treasured copy of Bradshaw's handbook for its Stateside counterpart an 1879 edition of Appleton'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 Phildaelphia to Jamestown Michael 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... Falls via the state capital, Albany; on his second journey he crosses the mid-Atlantic states of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, travelling from Philadelphia to Jamestown via Washington, D.C. Along the way he takes in Broadway, Ellis Island the gateway to America for millions of immigrants during the late 19th century the future World Trade Center Transportation Hub, the Military Academy at West Point, and Sleepy Hollow; he crosses the world's longest footbridge and visits the birthplace of the Mormon Church, hears the stories of African Slaves and visits the sites of battles that shaped the nation during the American Civil War before reaching the lands colonised by the earliest British settlers. [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. A companion to the phenomenally successful Great British Railway Journeys, this series sees Michael Portillo swapping his treasured copy of Bradshaw's handbook for its Stateside counterpart an 1879 edition of Appleton'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 Phildaelphia to Jamestown Michael 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 Falls via the state capital, Albany; on his second journey he crosses the mid-Atlantic states of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, travelling from Philadelphia to Jamestown via Washington, D.C. Along the way he takes in Broadway, Ellis Island the gateway to America for millions of immigrants during the late 19th century the future World Trade Center Transportation Hub, the Military Academy at West Point, and Sleepy Hollow; he crosses the world's longest footbridge and visits the birthplace of the Mormon Church, hears the stories of African Slaves and visits the sites of battles that shaped the nation during the American Civil War before reaching the lands colonised by the earliest British settlers.
All 15 episodes from the first series of the documentary in which Michael Portillo traces historic rail journeys across America, taking as his travelling companion 'Appletons' Guidebook'. The episodes are: 'Manhattan: Grand Central to Broadway', 'Manhattan: Lower East Side to World Trade Centre', 'Brooklyn to Montauk', 'New York City to Garrison', 'Poughkeepsie to Albany', 'Schenectady to Rochester', 'Buffalo to Niagara Falls', 'Philadelphia to Atlantic City', 'Lancaster to Gettysburg', 'Wilmington to Havre de Grace', 'Baltimore to Fort McHenry', 'Washington DC', 'Georgetown to Mount Vernon', 'Manassas to Richmond' and 'Petersburg to Jamestown'.
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