Book Description
An illustrated version of the familiar song about riding on a train called the City of New Orleans.
Author : Steve Goodman
Publisher : Putnam Juvenile
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 16,2 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
An illustrated version of the familiar song about riding on a train called the City of New Orleans.
Author : Mur Lafferty
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316221155
COULD YOU FIND A MUSEUM FOR A MONSTER?OR A JAZZ BAR FOR A JABBERWOCK? Zoe Norris writes travel guides for the undead. And she's good at it too -- her new-found ability to talk to cities seems to help. After the success of The Sbambling Guide to New York City, Zoe and her team are sent to New Orleans to write the sequel. Work isn't all that brings Zoe to the Big Easy. The only person who can save her boyfriend from zombism is rumored to live in the city's swamps, but Zoe's out of her element in the wilderness. With her supernatural colleagues waiting to see her fail, and rumors of a new threat hunting city talkers, can Zoe stay alive long enough to finish her next book?
Author : Eliza Ripley
Publisher : New York ; London : D. Appleton and Company
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 18,94 MB
Release : 1912
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Macon Fry
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,16 MB
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1496833090
They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans is the previously untold story of perhaps the oldest outsider settlement in America, an invisible community on the annually flooded shores of the Mississippi River. This community exists in the place between the normal high and low water line of the Mississippi River, a zone known in Louisiana as the batture. For the better part of two centuries, batture dwellers such as Macon Fry have raised shantyboats on stilts, built water-adapted homes, foraged, fished, and survived using the skills a river teaches. Until now the stories of this way of life have existed only in the memories of those who have lived here. Beginning in 2000, Fry set about recording the stories of all the old batture dwellers he could find: maritime workers, willow furniture makers, fishermen, artists, and river shrimpers. Along the way, Fry uncovered fascinating tales of fortune tellers, faith healers, and wild bird trappers who defiantly lived on the river. They Called Us River Rats also explores the troubled relationship between people inside the levees, the often-reviled batture folks, and the river itself. It traces the struggle between batture folks and city authorities, the commercial interests that claimed the river, and Louisiana’s most powerful politicians. These conflicts have ended in legal battles, displacement, incarceration, and even lynching. Today Fry is among the senior generation of “River Rats” living in a vestigial colony of twelve “camps” on New Orleans’s river batture, a fragment of a settlement that once stretched nearly six miles and numbered hundreds of homes. It is the last riparian settlement on the Lower Mississippi and a contrarian, independent life outside urban zoning, planning, and flood protection. This book is for everyone who ever felt the pull of the Mississippi River or saw its towering levees and wondered who could live on the other side.
Author : Tom Zoellner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,21 MB
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0143126342
An epic and revelatory narrative of the most important transportation technology of the modern world In his wide-ranging and entertaining new book, Tom Zoellner—coauthor of the New York Times–bestselling An Ordinary Man—travels the globe to tell the story of the sociological and economic impact of the railway technology that transformed the world—and could very well change it again. From the frigid trans-Siberian railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the Japanese-style bullet trains, Zoellner offers a stirring story of this most indispensable form of travel. A masterful narrative history, Train also explores the sleek elegance of railroads and their hypnotizing rhythms, and explains how locomotives became living symbols of sex, death, power, and romance.
Author : Martin Popoff
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 10,99 MB
Release : 2017-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 0760352208
"...Treats fans to an unparalleled look back at the trio's twenty studio albums through the minds and ears of twenty musicians, Rush authorities, and fellow journalists." -back cover.
Author : Patti Lacy
Publisher : Kregel Publications
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 33,16 MB
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0825489733
From 1940s New Orleans to late 1960s Chicago, this is a tale of secrets, betrayal, and a love that can never be lost
Author : Shirley Baugher
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 24,99 MB
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1614233535
New York has Greenwich Village; New Orleans has its French Quarter; Paris has Montmartre. And Chicago has its own little piece of charm that rivals them all. Chicago has Old Townan oasis in the steel and stone heart of the city, an old-fashioned, do-it-yourself neighborhood beloved by artists and entrepreneurs as the perfect place to find a muse and raise a family. And while a casual, inobservant visitor can feel the magnetism of the place, lifelong residents may still be unaware of the hidden bits of history Old Town has drawn into itself. Until now.
Author : Bill Tangen
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 2005-03
Category :
ISBN : 0741424339
Author : Ludovic Kennedy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 29,9 MB
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1784972738
Train travel always leads to great adventures; the countryside, like a moving picture show, unrolls itself before one's eyes. One is transported to the wild places of earth – forest, mountain, desert; and always there is the counterpoint between life within the train and life without. Train travel, being both constrictred in time and space, magnifies character, intensifies relationships, unites the disparate. Ordinary people become extra-ordinary, larger then life; and in the knowledge that they will not meet again, expansive, confiding, intimate. A BOOK OF RAILWAY JOURNEYS is a collection of Ludovic Kennedy's favourite train-journey literature. The anthology takes us on a round-the-world tour, through 155 years of train travel. It conjures up grand old trains and historic journeys; recalls horrific wartime adventures and spectacular crashes; and dwells on the romance of rail travel – its most unlikely encounters and unexpected events.