Pullman | Claire Wrathall (€59.95)

A Life in Motion
Verwacht op 30-06-2025

Today, the word “pullman” has come to mean “a railroad passenger car with especially comfortable furnishings for day or especially for night travel”. But before the word entered the mainstream, it was a name, that of George Mortimer Pullman, a serial entrepreneur, an extraordinary innovator and one of the cleverest businessmen of America’s Gilded Age.

Pullman gave his name first to a coach, then to a train and finally to a notion, that of luxury travel.

This book will retrace the history of Pullman,

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