Author : MD Shoatzycoatl
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 15,23 MB
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1312066911
Follow the adventure of a young man who is hit by a train and transported to a shadowy afterlife world full of minotaurs, tanks, mermaids, priests, robots, tribesmen, and many other colorful beasts, creatures, and characters! WORLD TRAIN charts the mystical journey of a nameless narrator who attempts to find God, love, and the meaning of life amidst a collection of philosophical and mythological tales that will set your imagination in motion.
Author : MD Shoatzycoatl
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 15,39 MB
Release : 2016-04-17
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1365033678
Follow the adventure of a young man who is hit by a train and transported to a shadowy afterlife world full of minotaurs, tanks, mermaids, priests, robots, tribesmen, and many other colorful beasts, creatures, and characters! WORLD TRAIN charts the mystical journey of a nameless narrator who attempts to find God, love, and the meaning of life amidst a collection of philosophical and mythological tales that will set your imagination in motion.
Author : Shoatzycoatl, MD
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 2014-10-31
Category :
ISBN :
Follow the adventure of a young man who is hit by a train and transported to a shadowy afterlife world full of minotaurs, tanks, mermaids, priests, robots, tribesmen, and many other colorful beasts, creatures, and characters! WORLD TRAIN: Beginning charts the mystical journey of a nameless narrator who attempts to find God, love, and the meaning of life amidst a collection of philosophical and mythological tales that will set your imagination in motion.
Author : Tom Zoellner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 38,47 MB
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0698151399
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 : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 44,40 MB
Release : 2001-11-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780743203173
The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
Author : Diccon Bewes
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,8 MB
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1857889762
A travel diary from 1863 inspires author Diccon Bewes to retrace Thomas Cook's historic train trip that revolutionized tourism forever.
Author : Lonely Planet
Publisher : Lonely Planet
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1788682025
Experience 60 of the worlds greatest and most unforgettable train journeys, from classic long-distance trips like Western Canadas Rocky Mountaineer and Darwin to Adelaides The Ghan, to little-known gems on regular commuting lines. Weve always had a soft spot for trains. We know the moment a train pulls out of a station bound for somewhere fantastic is when the adventure truly starts. Amazing Train Journeys is the culmination of asking more than 200 travel writers for their absolute favourites. Some are epic international adventures, others short suburban routes along stunning coastline. There are incredible feats of engineering, trains that snake their way through mountain peaks, and even those which have achieved Unesco World Heritage status. Each profile contains practical information including ticket options, timetables and stops, plus inspiring photos and illustrated maps. Journeys include: Africa & the Middle East: Johannesburg to Cape Town (South Africa) Andimeshk to Dorud (Iran) Bulawayo to Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe) The Americas: The California Zephyr (USA) Perurails Lake Titicaca Railway (Peru) The Serra Verde Express (Brazil) Asia: The Darjeeling Toy Train (India) The Reunification Express (Vietnam) Beijing to Shanghai by High-Speed Rail (China) Europe: The Glacier Express (Switzerland) Belgrade-to-Bar Railway (Serbia & Montenegro) London to Fort William on the Caledonian Sleeper (UK) Oceania: South Coast Line (Australia) The TranzAlpine (New Zealand) The Northern Explorer (New Zealand) About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the worlds number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, weve printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. Youll also find our content online, on mobile, video and in 14 languages, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
Author : Abrahm Lustgarten
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 2009-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780805090185
Lustgarten's book is a timely and provocative account of China's unstoppable quest to build a railway into Tibet, and the nation's obsession to transform its land and its people.
Author : James McCommons
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,48 MB
Release : 2009-11-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1603582592
During the tumultuous year of 2008--when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set ridership records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in California--journalist James McCommons spent a year on America's trains, talking to the people who ride and work the rails throughout much of the Amtrak system. Organized around these rail journeys, Waiting on a Train is equal parts travel narrative, personal memoir, and investigative journalism. Readers meet the historians, railroad executives, transportation officials, politicians, government regulators, railroad lobbyists, and passenger-rail advocates who are rallying around a simple question: Why has the greatest railroad nation in the world turned its back on the very form of transportation that made modern life and mobility possible? Distrust of railroads in the nineteenth century, overregulation in the twentieth, and heavy government subsidies for airports and roads have left the country with a skeletal intercity passenger-rail system. Amtrak has endured for decades, and yet failed to prosper owing to a lack of political and financial support and an uneasy relationship with the big, remaining railroads. While riding the rails, McCommons explores how the country may move passenger rail forward in America--and what role government should play in creating and funding mass-transportation systems. Against the backdrop of the nation's stimulus program, he explores what it will take to build high-speed trains and transportation networks, and when the promise of rail will be realized in America.
Author : Christina Baker Kline
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 44,59 MB
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0062445960
This young readers’ edition of Christina Baker Kline’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel Orphan Train follows a twelve-year-old foster girl who forms an unlikely bond with a ninety-one-year-old woman. Adapted and condensed for a young audience, Orphan Train Girl includes an author’s note and archival photos from the orphan train era. This book is especially perfect for mother/daughter reading groups. Molly Ayer has been in foster care since she was eight years old. Most of the time, Molly knows it’s her attitude that’s the problem, but after being shipped from one family to another, she’s had her fair share of adults treating her like an inconvenience. So when Molly’s forced to help an a wealthy elderly woman clean out her attic for community service, Molly is wary. But from the moment they meet, Molly realizes that Vivian isn’t like any of the adults she’s encountered before. Vivian asks Molly questions about her life and actually listens to the answers. Soon Molly sees they have more in common than she thought. Vivian was once an orphan, too—an Irish immigrant to New York City who was put on a so-called "orphan train" to the Midwest with hundreds of other children—and she can understand, better than anyone else, the emotional binds that have been making Molly’s life so hard. Together, they not only clear boxes of past mementos from Vivian’s attic, but forge a path of friendship, forgiveness, and new beginnings.
