Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World: from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction) - Hardcover
Synopsis
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).
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Review
"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
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"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"
About the Author
Tom Zoellner is the author of four previous nonfiction books, including "Uranium," winner of the 2011 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award. He is an Associate Professor at Chapman University and lives in downtown Los Angeles.
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