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Book Synopsis The R.G.S. Story: Over the bridges, Ophir Loop to Rico by : Russ Collman
Download or read book The R.G.S. Story: Over the bridges, Ophir Loop to Rico written by Russ Collman and published by Sundance Publications Limited. This book was released on 1994-12-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardbound; 8 1/2 x 11 inches; 496 pages; plastic dust jacket; 94 full-color photos; 356 black & white views. Presents the Ophir Loop trestles, Trout Lake, Lizard Head Pass and downgrade via the Gallagher bridges to Rico; features line drawings of buildings and structures along the RGS by Mike Blazek, drawings of bridges Joe Sacks and detailed maps by Jim Key.
Download or read book The R.G.S. Story written by Russ Collman and published by Sundance Publishing. This book was released on 1993-12-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardbound; 8 1/2 x 11 inches; 496 pages; indexed; w/deluxe plastic dust jacket; 85 full-color photos; 354 black & white views; 32 detailed maps; features line drawings of buildings and structures along the RGS by Mike Blazek plus maps and additional structure plans by Jim Key.
Download or read book The R.G.S. Story written by Dell A. McCoy and published by Sundance Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardbound; 8 1/2 x 11 inches; 416 pages; indexed; w/deluxe plastic dust jacket; 31 full-color photos; 374 historic black & white views. Produced with the classic Sundance flair! Loaded with detailed right-of-way maps, including Ridgway to Vance Junction--recently made available and not presented in the previous volumes. Tucked in the dust jacket is an 18" x 24" system map that includes large-scale inset maps of various station grounds and the Ophir Loop, etc. This volume covers the full 162 miles of this fabled narrow-gauge steam railroad.
Book Synopsis Nothing Like It In the World by : Stephen E. Ambrose
Download or read book Nothing Like It In the World written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-11-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
Book Synopsis Dolores and McPhee by : Dell A. McCoy
Download or read book Dolores and McPhee written by Dell A. McCoy and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardbound; 8 1/2 x 11 inches; 496 pages; indexed; w/deluxe plastic dust jacket; fold-up New Mexico Lumber Co. map in color laid-in; 32 full-color photos; 470 black & white views; ISBN # 0-913582-66-2. Features line drawings of buildings and structures along the RGS by Mike Blazek and many detailed maps by Jim Key.
Book Synopsis Accrington's Pals: The Full Story by : Andrew Jackson
Download or read book Accrington's Pals: The Full Story written by Andrew Jackson and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Jackson's new history tells the story of the Great War as it was experienced by the men of the 11th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment (Accrington Pals), the 158th (Accrington and Burnley) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (Howitzers) and their families. Using information gathered from years of painstaking research in national and local archives and in private collections, he reconstructs, in vivid detail, the role played by these men on the Western Front. His book, which draws extensively on diaries, memoirs and letters, follows both infantry and artillerymen into the British armys bloodiest battles of the war, giving a graphic close-up view of their experiences. It is a moving record of the wartime service of a select group of local men during a time of unprecedented conflict.
Book Synopsis Robert Richardson's Rio Grande Southern, Volume III by : Robert Richardson
Download or read book Robert Richardson's Rio Grande Southern, Volume III written by Robert Richardson and published by Heimburger House Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third volume of his narrow gauge chronicle, noted narrow gauge preservationist Robert Richardson continues to take a close look at the Rio Grande Southern, the 172-mile narrow gauge route that wrapped itself around the craggy and forested San Juan Mountains between Durango and Ridgway, Colorado. In just two years, Otto Mears built a railroad that climbed four mountain passes and featured 142 bridges, including numerous high, spindly trestles. In this 224-page hardbound book, Bob hones in on the town of Ridgway, the various RGS “oasis” towns in the wilderness, mine-rich Telluride, the RGS’ locomotive fleet, the Galloping Goose era and high-in-the-sky Ophir. He also talks about important old RGS records and how he obtained copies, relates humorous insights about hunting season on the line, the Montezuma Lumber Company operations at McPhee, and the last runs of the famed RGS trains.
Book Synopsis Darling Rose Gold by : Stephanie Wrobel
Download or read book Darling Rose Gold written by Stephanie Wrobel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dark, shocking, bestselling thriller debut about a mother and daughter—and the lengths to which a daughter will go to find independence. “Nobody wants to hear the truth from a liar.” For the first eighteen years of her life, Rose Gold Watts believed she was seriously ill. She was allergic to everything, used a wheelchair, and practically lived at the hospital. Neighbors did all they could, holding fundraisers and offering shoulders to cry on, but no matter how many doctors, tests, or surgeries, no one could figure out what was wrong with her. Turns out her mom, Patty Watts, was just a really good liar. After serving five years in prison, Patty gets out with nowhere to go and begs her daughter to take her in. The entire community is shocked when Rose Gold says yes. Patty insists all she wants is to reconcile their differences. She says she’s forgiven Rose Gold for turning her in and testifying against her. But Rose Gold knows her mother. Patty Watts always settles a score. Unfortunately for Patty, Rose Gold is no longer her weak little darling… And she’s waited such a long time for her mother to come home.
Book Synopsis Chasing Trains by : Robert Richardson
Download or read book Chasing Trains written by Robert Richardson and published by Heimburger House Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 432-page 8½ x 11" hardbound tells of the numerous lifetime railroad adventures of Robert W. Richardson, noted author, photographer and historian. Bob, a railfan’s railfan, originally released the book in 1995 under the Sundance Publications label, and it sold out. This new, limited second edition features 425 color and black and white photographs and covers Bob’s favorite locomotives; his travels in the Northeastern and New England states, Canada, Texas and Oklahoma, Old Border states and the Midwest, Southern states, Mexico and Central America, Persian Gulf countries, Colorado and New Mexico; the vanishing interurban; the San Juan; railroading in the snow; the Poncha, Cumbres and Marshall passes; the Gunnison area; Ouray; the Black Canyon; Durango; Silverton; Cerro Summit; Crested Butte; the Baldwin Branch; the San Luis Valley Line; the Colorado & Southern, Rio Grande Southern and much more. The book features 22 chapters and covers such railroads and subjects as the Ohio River & Western, the crookedest railroad in the world; the Aliquippa & Southern; the East Broad Top; Tionesta Valley Railway; Edaville; the Tweetsie; woodburners in the woods; Live Oak, Perry & Gulf; the D&RGW and Rio Grande Southern narrow gauge; and the RGS geese, among many other subjects. Possessing a fascination with trains and railroading as far back as 1931, Bob’s interest quickly developed into a lifelong career of chasing, riding and photographing trains. His train riding has led to many adventures few railfans have experienced. Bob, with his journalistic penchant, tells a great story, weaving together facts and figures of how it used to be on the railroads. He became editor of the Linn’s Weekly Stamp News, was an advertising coordinator, served in the U.S. Army, owned the famous Narrow Gauge Motel in Alamosa and began publishing the Narrow Gauge News.
Book Synopsis Value Chain Struggles by : Jeff Neilson
Download or read book Value Chain Struggles written by Jeff Neilson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopting a 'global value chain' approach, Value Chain Struggles investigates the impact of new trading arrangements in the coffee and tea sectors on the lives and in the communities of growers in South India. Offers a timely analysis of the social hardships of tea and coffee producers Takes the reader into the lives of growers in Southern India who are struggling with issues of value chain restructuring Reveals the ways that the restructuring triggers a series of political and economic struggles across a range of economic, social, and environmental arenas Puts into perspective claims about the impacts of recent changes to global trading relations on rural producers in developing countries
Book Synopsis Hungry Translations by : Richa Nagar
Download or read book Hungry Translations written by Richa Nagar and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts often assume that the poor, hungry, rural, and/or precarious need external interventions. They frequently fail to recognize how the same people create politics and knowledge by living and honing their own dynamic visions. How might scholars and teachers working in the Global North ethically participate in producing knowledge in ways that connect across different meanings of struggle, hunger, hope, and the good life?Informed by over twenty years of experiences in India and the United States, Hungry Translations bridges these divides with a fresh approach to academic theorizing. Through in-depth reflections on her collaborations with activists, theatre artists, writers, and students, Richa Nagar discusses the ongoing work of building embodied alliances among those who occupy different locations in predominant hierarchies. She argues that such alliances can sensitively engage difference through a kind of full-bodied immersion and translation that refuses comfortable closures or transparent renderings of meanings. While the shared and unending labor of politics makes perfect translation--or retelling--impossible, hungry translations strive to make our knowledges more humble, more tentative, and more alive to the creativity of struggle.
Book Synopsis Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration by : David Roberts
Download or read book Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration written by David Roberts and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the epic journey undertaken by Douglas Mawson, who suffered starvation, the loss of his team, and a crippling foot injury as he resorted to crawling back to base camp during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1913.
Book Synopsis Mountaineers by : Royal Geographical Society
Download or read book Mountaineers written by Royal Geographical Society and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating a tradition of bravery, thirst for knowledge, and pursuit of glory, this ebook tells the stories of the most famous mountaineers in history and explores the climbs that they conquered. Mountaineers is filled with stirring tales of adventure and intriguing characters, from the Brits who insisted on hauling cases of vintage champagne up to Everest base camp in 1924, to the Italian Duke of the Abruzzi who took 10 iron bedsteads up Alaska's Malaspina glacier. It chronicles the stories of the pioneers who first conquered the heights of this planet, from Otzi the Iceman to Edmund Hillary, important scientific discoveries that were made along the way, and accounts of great bravery, fellowship, altruism, and humour in the face of adversity. The ebook features fact files for over 100 famous mountaineers and stunning photography of the mountains they scaled, and contains rare artefacts that were found on their journeys, previously unpublished photographs, and specially commissioned route maps to recreate history's greatest ascents. The book also charts the development of technology, equipment, and techniques from the tweed hacking jackets and pipe-smoking of the early mountaineers to the sophisticated kit being used today.
Book Synopsis The Story of Africa and Its Explorers: The last of a long tale. The Sahara. The missionaries. The hunters. The international explorers by : Robert Brown
Download or read book The Story of Africa and Its Explorers: The last of a long tale. The Sahara. The missionaries. The hunters. The international explorers written by Robert Brown and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Companion to the History of Modern Science by : G N Cantor
Download or read book Companion to the History of Modern Science written by G N Cantor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-07 with total page 1095 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * A descriptive and analytical guide to the development of Western science from AD 1500, and to the diversity and course of that development first in Europe and later across the world * Presented in clear, non-technical language * Extensive indexes of Subjects and Names `Indeed a companion volume whose 67 essays give pleasure and instruction ... an ambitious and successful work.' - Times Literary Supplement `This work is an essential resource for libraries everywhere. For specialist science libraries willing to keep just one encyclopaedic guide to history, for undergraduate libraries seeking to provide easily accessible information, for the devisers of university curricula, for the modern social historian or even the eclectic scientist taking a break from simply making history, this is the book for you.' - Times Higher Education Supplement `A pleasure to read with a carefully chosen typeface, well organized pages and ample margins ... it is very easy to find one's way around. This is a book which will be consulted widely.' - Technovation `This is a commendably easy book to use.' - British Journal of the History of Science `Scholars from other areas entering this field, students taking the vertical approach and teachers coming from any direction cannot fail to find this an invaluable text.' - History of Science Journal
Book Synopsis Alice in Wonderland by : Lewis Carroll
Download or read book Alice in Wonderland written by Lewis Carroll and published by Seven Books. This book was released on 2024-09-25 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. The artist John Tenniel provided 42 wood-engraved illustrations for the book.It received positive reviews upon release and is now one of the best-known works of Victorian literature; its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had a widespread influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. It is credited as helping end an era of didacticism in children's literature, inaugurating an era in which writing for children aimed to "delight or entertain". The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. The titular character Alice shares her name with Alice Liddell, a girl Carroll knewscholars disagree about the extent to which the character was based upon her.
Download or read book The Lost City of Z written by David Grann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-08-10 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING ROBERT PATTINSON, CHARLIE HUNNAM AND SIENNA MILLER** ‘A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure’JOHN GRISHAM The story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, the inspiration behind Conan Doyle's The Lost World, by the author of the international Number One bestsellers KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE WAGER Fawcett was among the last of a legendary breed of British explorers. For years he explored the Amazon and came to believe that its jungle concealed a large, complex civilization, like El Dorado. Obsessed with its discovery, he christened it the City of Z. In 1925, Fawcett headed into the wilderness with his son Jack, vowing to make history. They vanished without a trace. For the next eighty years, hordes of explorers plunged into the jungle, trying to find evidence of Fawcett's party or Z. Some died from disease and starvation; others simply disappeared. In this spellbinding true tale of lethal obsession, David Grann retraces the footsteps of Fawcett and his followers as he unravels one of the greatest mysteries of exploration. ‘A wonderful story of a lost age of heroic exploration’ Sunday Times ‘Marvellous ... An engrossing book whose protagonist could out-think Indiana Jones’ Daily Telegraph ‘The best story in the world, told perfectly’ Evening Standard ‘A fascinating and brilliant book’ Malcolm Gladwell
