Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World: from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction) [Idioma Inglés] - Tapa dura

Zoellner, Tom

 
9781410469052: Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World: from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction) [Idioma Inglés]
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ISBN 10: 1410469050 ISBN 13: 9781410469052
Editorial: Thorndike Pr, 2014

Sinopsis

Chronicles the innovation and sociological impact of railway technology that continues to change the world, examining the mechanics of rails and their engines and their role in helping societies evolve while analyzing America's culture of ambivalence to mass transit as reflected by the example case of the perpetually stalled line between Los Angeles and San Francisco. (travel).. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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Críticas

"Tom Zoellner's writing is never less than engaging; in "Train "he has made himself a veritable Walt Whitman of rail travel. It's a great read."
--Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer prize-winning author of "The Making of the Atomic Bomb"

""Train "is such a pleasure to read, elegant, deeply informed and smart, full of knowledge-bearing sentences, and prose so companionable and rich in insight that it is as if its author were at your shoulder, taking you along with him. What an enjoyable journey. I will never hear the far off moan of a train in the night without thinking of it, and I know of no higher praise one can give a book. Tom Zoellner is quickly making himself a reputation as a man of wide and eclectic interests, and oh, my! Can he write!"
--Richard Bausch

Praise for "Train: "

"Tom Zoellner's writing is never less than engaging; in Train "he has made himself a veritable Walt Whitman of rail travel. It's a great read." --Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer prize-winning author of "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" "Train "is such a pleasure to read, elegant, deeply informed and smart, full of knowledge-bearing sentences, and prose so companionable and rich in insight that it is as if its author were at your shoulder, taking you along with him. What an enjoyable journey. I will never hear the far off moan of a train in the night without thinking of it, and I know of no higher praise one can give a book. Tom Zoellner is quickly making himself a reputation as a man of wide and eclectic interests, and oh, my! Can he write!" --Richard Bausch, author of "Peace"

"An absorbing and lively reflection on an enduring marvel of modern industrial technology."--"Booklist"

""Train" makes for fascinating reading....The author's easy, breezy style will keep readers chugging along."--"The St. Louis Post-Dispatch"

"[Train], rich with history and local color, is a mesmerizing read for anyone interested in the impact of trains on the environment, politics, economics, and daily life around the world today."--"Library Journal"

Reseña del editor

Chronicles the innovation and sociological impact of railway technology that continues to change the world, examining the mechanics of rails and their engines and their role in helping societies evolve while analyzing America's culture of ambivalence to mass transit as reflected by the example case of the perpetually stalled line between Los Angeles and San Francisco. (travel).. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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Editorial
Thorndike Pr
Año de publicación
2014
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1410469050
ISBN 13 
9781410469052
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
605
Contacto del fabricante
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