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  • Dominion

    The Railway and the Rise of Canada

    von Stephen Bown
    A thrilling new account of the engineering triumph that created a nationIn The Company, his bestselling work of revisionist history, Stephen R. Bown told the dramatic, adventurous and bloody tale of Canada's origins in the fur trade. With Dominion he continues the nation's creation story with an equally gripping and eye-opening account of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.In the late Mehr lesen

    $14.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The Peking Express

    The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China

    The thrilling true story of train-robbing revolutionaries and passengers who got more than they paid for in this Murder on the Orient Express–style adventure, set in China’s republican era.In May 1923, when Shanghai publisher and reporter John Benjamin Powell bought a first-class ticket for the Peking Express, he pictured an idyllic overnight journey on a brand-new train of unprecedented luxury Mehr lesen

    $18.99 USD

  • The Day the Whistles Cried: The Great Cornfield Meet at Dutchman's Curve

    von Betsy Thorpe
    Two steam locomotives collide head-on in a cornfield at the edge of Nashville on July 9, 1918, taking the lives of more than a hundred people and injuring at least 300 others. This tragic tale, set against a backdrop of wartime urgency and human error, unfolds in the midst of the racial and societal divisions of the early twentieth century: a riveting story of decided historical impact. Mehr lesen

    $7.99 USD oder kostenlos mit Kobo Plus

  • Railway Day Trips: 160 classic train journeys around Britain

    von Julian Holland
    Fully updated essential guide to exploring Britain by train, Railway Day Trips is ideal for anyone planning or looking for inspiration for a rail journey. From bestselling railway author Julian Holland.This pocket companion is perfect for both casual and seasoned rail travellers. Plan adventures, follow the changing landscape through the train window and discover fascinating destinations.Each Mehr lesen

    $8.99 USD

  • Columbia River Gorge Railroads

    Series series Images of Modern America
    The Columbia River Gorge is a land of scenic wonder, revered by tourists for its beauty and by recreationalists for its fishing, windsurfing, hiking, and rafting. The region is also a major transportation corridor, home to two vital east-west railroad routes: Burlington Northern Santa Fe on the Washington side of the Columbia River and Union Pacific on the Oregon side. Every day, dozens of freight Mehr lesen

    $12.99 USD oder kostenlos mit Kobo Plus

  • Conquering Gotham

    Building Penn Station and Its Tunnels

    von Jill Jonnes
    “Superb. [A] first-rate narrative” (The Wall Street Journal) about the controversial construction of New York’s beloved original Penn Station and its tunnels, from the author of Eiffel's Tower and Urban ForestsAs bestselling books like Ron Chernow's Titan and David McCullough's The Great Bridge affirm, readers are fascinated with the grand personalities and schemes that populated New York at the Mehr lesen

    $14.99 USD

  • St Pancras Station

    von Simon Bradley
    Simon Bradley traces the history of the station, introducing us to the men behind the architecture and looks at its new international status. This fine new edition includes a fascinating chapter on the new hotel and some timely revisions bringing it fully up to date.'A marvellous piece of social, aesthetic and technological history... it is impossible to praise Bradley's book too highly' A. N. Mehr lesen

    $6.99 USD

  • Vanderbilt

    The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

    New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts.One of the Washington Post's Notable Works of Nonfiction of 2021When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat ferrying Mehr lesen

    $11.99 USD

  • Transportation and the American People

    von H. Roger Grant
    This “outstanding contribution to transportation history” chronicles the evolution of American mobility from stagecoaches to buses and airplanes (Choice).Transportation is the unsung hero of American history. Stagecoaches, waterways, canals, railways, busses, and airplanes revolutionized much more than just the way people got around; they transformed the economic, political, and social aspects of Mehr lesen

    $12.99 USD oder kostenlos mit Kobo Plus

  • Drinking with Men

    A Memoir

    von Rosie Schaap
    NPR “Best Books of 2013”BookPage Best Books of 2013Library Journal Best Books of 2013: MemoirFlavorwire 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2013A vivid, funny, and poignant memoir that celebrates the distinct lure of the camaraderie and community one finds drinking in bars.Rosie Schaap has always loved bars: the wood and brass and jukeboxes, ... Mehr lesen

    $4.99 USD

  • John W. Barriger III

    Railroad Legend

    von H. Roger Grant
    Series series Railroads Past and Present
    “Readers will find in his biography an extraordinary tale of the travails of twentieth-century railroading through the career of this one man.” —The Annals of IowaAfter graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, John W. Barriger III (1899–1976) started his career on the Pennsylvania Railroad as a rodman, shop hand, and then assistant yardmaster. His enthusiasm, tenacity, and Mehr lesen

    $12.99 USD oder kostenlos mit Kobo Plus

  • Boston's Red Line

    Bridging the Charles from Alewife to Braintree

    von Frank Cheney
    Series series Images of America
    When the Boston Elevated Railway Company broke ground for the Cambridge Subway in May 1909, its intention was to provide the cities of Boston and Cambridge with the finest and most efficient rapid-transit system of the time. Other cities, such as New York and Philadelphia, paid close attention, adopting many of the Cambridge Subway's revolutionary design features. The subway became known as the Mehr lesen

    $12.99 USD oder kostenlos mit Kobo Plus

  • Last Train to Paradise

    Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean

    von Les Standiford
    The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores.In 1904, the brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler, partner to John D. Rockefeller, dreamed of a railway connecting the island of Key Mehr lesen

    $14.99 USD

  • The Train Journey

    Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust

    Serien Buch 13 - War and Genocide
    Deportations by train were critical in the Nazis’ genocidal vision of the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.” Historians have estimated that between 1941 and 1944 up to three million Jews were transported to their deaths in concentration and extermination camps. In his writings on the “Final Solution,” Raul Hilberg pondered the role of trains: “How can railways be regarded as anything more Mehr lesen

    Kostenlos

  • Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads

    The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads

    von Dee Brown
    A fascinating and atmospheric history of the transcontinental railroad—the nineteenth century’s greatest and most relentless feat of national expansionHear that Lonesome Whistle Blow unspools the history of the beginnings of the American railroad system. By the mid-nineteenth century, settlers in Missouri and California were separated by a vast landscape that dwarfed and isolated them, conquerable Mehr lesen

    $12.99 USD oder kostenlos mit Kobo Plus

  • Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo

    von Tim Parks
    The best-selling author of Italian Neighbors returns with a wry and revealing portrait of Italian life—by riding its trains.Tim Parks’s books on Italy have been hailed as "so vivid, so packed with delectable details, [they] serve as a more than decent substitute for the real thing" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, in his first Italian travelogue in a decade, he delivers a charming and funny Mehr lesen

    $12.99 USD

  • Nothing Like It In the World

    The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

    In this New York Times bestseller, Stephen Ambrose brings to life the story of the building of the transcontinental railroad, from the men who financed it to the engineers and surveyors who risked their lives to the workers who signed on for the dangerous job.Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who Mehr lesen

    $15.99 USD

  • The Iron Road

    An Illustrated History of the Railroad

    Series series DK Short Histories
    Written by Christian Wolmar, author of the critically acclaimed The Great Railroad Revolution, The Iron Road is a richly illustrated account of the rise of the rails across the world.From the historic moment in September 1830 when the first train ran between Liverpool and Manchester, to the high speed trains bulleting across Asia and Europe, The Iron Road: An Illustrated History of the Railroad Mehr lesen

    $12.99 USD

  • Jay Gould: Ruthless Railroad Tycoon

    von Daniel Alef
    Biographical profile of Jay Gould railroad tycoon and baron of Wall Street. Jay Gould one of the richest and most hated men in America in the 1880s was an elusive slippery character difficult to assess and more difficult to understand. The secretive tycoon was brilliant and ruthless perhaps the quintessential "robber baron." In a fiery sermon delivered a week after Gould's death the Rev. G. Mehr lesen

    $2.99 USD

  • Uncommon Carriers

    von John McPhee
    What John McPhee's books all have in common is that they are about real people in real places. Here, at his adventurous best, he is out and about with people who work in freight transportation.Over the past eight years, John McPhee has spent considerable time in the company of people who work in freight transportation. Uncommon Carriers is his sketchbook of them and of his journeys with them. He Mehr lesen

    $11.99 USD

  • London Under

    The Secret History Beneath the Streets

    von Peter Ackroyd
    In this vividly descriptive short study, Peter Ackroyd tunnels down through the geological layers of London, meeting the creatures that dwell in darkness and excavating the lore and mythology beneath the surface.There is a Bronze Age trackway below the Isle of Dogs, Anglo-Saxon graves rest under St. Pauls, and the monastery of Whitefriars lies beneath Fleet Street. To go under London is to Mehr lesen

    $13.99 USD

  • The Great Railroad Revolution

    The History of Trains in America

    America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line -- the first American railroad -- in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe's, and facilitated everything from long Mehr lesen

    $12.99 USD

  • Iron Horses

    America's Race to Bring the Railroads West

    A "masterly" account of the origins of the transcontinental railroad (Douglas Brinkley) by the author of the bestselling The Admirals.After the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869, the rest of the United States was up for grabs, and the race was on. The prize: a better, shorter, less snowy route through the American Southwest, linking Los Angeles to Chicago.In Iron Horses, Mehr lesen

    $12.99 USD

  • Riding the Rails with Paul Theroux

    The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, and Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

    von Paul Theroux
    The international bestselling author records his many insights and adventures traversing the world by train in these 3 classic travel memoirs.The Great Railway BazaarIn 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on his now-legendary journey from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Asia's fabled trains—the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Mehr lesen

    $36.99 USD oder kostenlos mit Kobo Plus