Bain, David Haward Old iron road 9781496230485

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Автор: Bain, David Haward
Название: Old iron road
ISBN: 9781496230485
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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ISBN-10: 1496230485
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 470
Вес: 0.75 кг.
Дата издания: 01.09.2022
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 39 photographs, 1 map, index
Размер: 158 x 234 x 32
Подзаголовок: An epic of rails, roads, and the urge to go west
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: In the summer of 2000 David Haward Bain and his family left their home in Vermont and headed west in search of America’s past. Spiritually, their journey began on a Kansas trail where the author’s grandmother was born in a covered wagon in 1889. Between the Missouri River and the Golden Gate, they retraced the entire route of the first transcontinental railroad and large stretches of the Oregon and California trails, and the equally colorful old Lincoln Highway. Following vanished iron rails and wagon wheel ruts, bumping down backroads and main streets, they discovered the deep, restless, uniquely American spirit of adventure that connects our past to our present. A superb writer and an exacting researcher, Bain conjures up a marvelous sense of coming unstuck in time as he lingers in the ghost towns and battlegrounds, prairies and river ports, trainyards, museums, deserts, and diners that line his cruise west to California. Bain encounters a fascinating cast of characters, both historic and contemporary, as well as memories of his grandparents and the journeys that shaped his own heritage. Writing in the tradition of William Least Heat-Moon and Ian Frazier, and with an engaging warmth and a deep grasp of history all his own, Bain has fashioned a quintessentially American journey.
Дополнительное описание: Memoirs|History|Trains and railways: general interest|Travel writing

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