Orient Express: The Story of a Legend

"The Orient Express represents, to me, the golden age of travel. The tableware, the glassware, all this beautiful woodwork, the "smell" of everything... It is a total and unique 'experience'." - Sir Kenneth Branagh, from the Preface. The first train to connect Paris to Constantinople - the gateway to the Orient and epitome of all its associated desires and fantasies - the Orient Express was an immediate success. Quickly nicknamed 'the king of trains, the train of kings', it had already beco...