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Europe's fabled Orient Express returns in pristine splendor...
...known in its gilded heyday as the train of kings. It also transported in regal splendor diplomats, divas and duchesses, the beau monde and the demimonde, maharajahs, moguls and con men, courtesans, couriers, private eyes and spies. Thundering across empires to the edge of Asia, the Orient Express was the most celebrated train in history. It retired ignobly in May 1977, aged 94, a shrunken outcast of the hurry-up age. Then, last May, it rose again in all its pristine opulence as a regularly scheduled year-round train luxe, plying between London and Venice. The once and future train...
...transportation." It is, and they're not, thanks largely to Sherwood, 49, a big blue-eyed Kentuckian who heads London-based Sea Containers Group. It is this profitable containerized shipping company (1981 earnings: $35.4 million) that owns and operates the new venture, having acquired and refurbished 35 old Orient Express cars over five years at a cost of $20 million. To emphasize the special nature of the inaugural run last spring, for example, passengers were encouraged to wear '20s finery, and many did so. On current trips, passengers often don evening clothes for dinner, and the champagne...
...each Friday and Sun day. The northbound V.S.O.E. leaves Venice's Santa Lucia Station at 5:25 p.m. on Saturday and Wednesday. The English segment of the train, which does not cross the channel, consists of seven chocolate-and-cream cars that were built for the old Orient Express. They have comfortable English names like Audrey and Agatha (not for Miss Christie, who wrote Murder on the Orient Express) or else daunting classical appellations like Perseus and Phoenix. Some English passengers are greeted by name at Victoria by brown-liveried Brian Hannaford, an oldtime Pullman chief steward...
...secure isolation. Eventually, Pawlu is surrounded by a group of mutinous Chinese soldiers and a marauding band of headhunters. Greenwood must choose between defending the village or earning lasting fame as the rescuer of the Peking Man. The Blue-Eyed Shan completes a trilogy of novels set in the Orient that the author began with The Chinese Bandit (1975) and The Last Mandarin (1979). The new book stands on its own but also adds considerably to the vivid pageant of the East that Becker has been creating. Read together, all three tales would more than compensate for the rainiest week...