A Railway to Nowhere
Author: Stephen Mills
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9789966709431
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stephen Mills
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9789966709431
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles Miller
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-07-13
Total Pages: 910
ISBN-13: 1784972711
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1895, George Whitehouse arrived at the east African post of Mombasa to perform an engineering miracle: the building of the Mombasa-Nairobi-Lake Victoria Railway – a 600-mile route that was largely unmapped and barely explored. Behind Mombasa lay a scorched, waterless desert. Beyond, a horizonless scrub country climbed toward a jagged volcanic region bisected by the Great Rift Valley. A hundred miles of sponge-like quagmire marked the railway's last lap. The entire right of way bristled with hostile tribes, teemed with lions and breathed malaria. What was the purpose of this 'giant folly' and whom would it benefit? Was it to exploit the rumoured wealth of little-known central African kingdoms? Was it to destroy the slave trade? To encourage commerce and settlement? THE LUNATIC EXPRESS explores the building of this great railway in an earlier Africa of slave and ivory empires, of tribal monarchs and the vast lands that they ruled. Above all, it is the story of the white intruders whose combination of avarice, honour and tenacious courage made them a breed apart.
Author: Doug McGuinn
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 63
ISBN-13: 9781427640604
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Published: 2012
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ISBN-13: 9781301453290
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hopping a freight in the St. Louis rail yards, Ted Conover0́4winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award0́4embarks on his dream trip, traveling the rails with "the knights of the road." Equipped with rummage store clothing, a bedroll, and his notebooks, Conover immerses himself in the peculiar culture of the hobo, where handshakes and intoductions are foreign, but where everyone knows where the Sally (Salvation Army) and the Willy (Goodwill) are. Along the way he encounters unexpected charity (a former cop goes out of his way to offer Conover a dollar) and indignities (what do you do when there are no public bathrooms?) and learns how to survive on the road.But above all, Conover gets to know the men and women who, for one reason or another, live this life. There's Lonny, who accepts that there are some towns he can't enter before dark because he's black, and Pistol Pete, a cowboy who claims his son is a doctor and his daughter a ballerina, and Sheba Sheila Sheils, who's built herself a house out of old tires. By turns resourceful and desperate, generous and mistrusting, independent and communal, philosophical and profoundly cynical, the tramps Conover meets show him a segment of humanity outside society, neither wholly romantic nor wholly tragic, and very much like the rest of us.
Author: Phil Roxbee Cox
Publisher: E.D.C. Publishing
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Staying with their Uncle Jack in what was once Seabry Station, twins Alf and Chrissy find themselves drawn into a series of strange events.
Author: Colleen Bradford Krantz
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781888160451
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The full story behind 11 immigrants found dead in a train car in Denison, Iowa. Companion to the public television documentary.
Author: Cynthia C. DeFelice
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2001-05-22
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 0380733064
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When her father kills himself after losing his money in the stock market crash of 1929, twelve-year-old Frances, now a penniless orphan decides to hop abroad a freight train and live the life of a hobo.
Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2001-11-06
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780743203173
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
Author: Marylin Irvin Holt
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1994-02-01
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780803235977
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"From 1850 to 1930 America witnessed a unique emigration and resettlement of at least 200,000 children and several thousand adults, primarily from the East Coast to the West. This 'placing out,' an attempt to find homes for the urban poor, was best known by the 'orphan trains' that carried the children. Holt carefully analyzes the system, initially instituted by the New York Children's Aid Society in 1853, tracking its imitators as well as the reasons for its creation and demise. She captures the children's perspective with the judicious use of oral histories, institutional records, and newspaper accounts. This well-written volume sheds new light on the multifaceted experience of children's immigration, changing concepts of welfare, and Western expansion. It is good, scholarly social history."—Library Journal
Author: Michael Rhodes
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
Published: 2014-12-04
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 0760346097
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"An updated edition of the work first published in 2003, describing and illustrating more than 100 working railyards throughout the United States and Canada. Includes photos, system maps, and yard diagrams"--Provided by publisher.