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...feathery immortelles, on a dirt track/with a horse cart for an equestrian bronze." But later Walcott wonders whether Pissarro's Impressionist renderings of French scenery did not involve treachery after all: "Are all the paintings then falsifications/of his real origins, was his island betrayed?/Instead of linden walks and railway stations,/ our palms and windmills? Think what he would have made/(but how could he, what color was his Muse,/and what was there to paint except black skins...
Train buffs consider this 2,750-mile, three-day, five-province journey one of the best in the world because of the train's refurbished Art Deco-style cars and first-rate service and the stunning scenery. Owen Hardy, president of the Society of International Railway Travelers, praises the Canadian as "a classic example of the elegant modern trains rolled out by the private railroads in their last-ditch battle against the automobile and interstate highways...
...less money, you can opt for the Mexican American Railway Co.'s $1,599 South Orient Express, a five-day, four-night "cruise on rails," as M.A.R.C. vice president Bill Brailey calls it. The South Orient Express includes five-course international lunches prepared by a master chef, but does not provide sleeping accommodations. A cheaper and unescorted version, Copper Canyon Limited, costs $1,100 for eight days and seven nights and allows you to customize your itinerary www.sierramadreexpress.com 800-666-0346; www.southorientexpress.com 800-659-7602). --By Janet Kang. With reporting by Ronald Buchanan...
...where you will eat well in a dining room, relax in a club car and gaze out picture windows. From May through September, Wednesday through Sunday, the train leaves North Vancouver at 10 a.m. and returns at 4 p.m., with a two-hour stopover in Squamish, where 60 vintage railway cars and locomotives are on view in the West Coast Railway Heritage Park. If you like, you can travel one way of the journey through Howe Sound on the M.V. Britannia www.bcrail.com./bcrpass...
...other train ride from Cuzco departs from Wanchac station and is memorable more for the railway experience itself. The diesel train sways as it chugs bravely for more than 10 hours through the thin air of the altiplano that links Cuzco with Puno near the Bolivian border. You can see herds of huddled alpacas and women in layers of skirts and bright shawls as the train ambles by. Halfway along the 239-mile Cuzco-to-Puno trip, it crosses the highest point of any standard-gauge passenger train service in the world at La Raya, 14,172 ft. above...