Weeping Waters: When Train Meets Volcano - Softcover

Le Vay, Benedict

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1492339377 ISBN 13: 9781492339373

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

SECOND EDITION: Benedict le Vay's latest book Weeping Waters: When Train Meets Volcano is an extraordinary achievement - a meticulously researched and almost forensic reconstruction of one of the 20th century's worst rail disasters - largely forgotten outside New Zealand - that comes up with a convincing new theory as to why the 151 people on that train died. Bringing the people and railways of exactly 60 years ago this Christmas Eve back to life, he works towards the nail-biting crescendo of the Tangiwai disaster ...

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Review:

Sixty years on, le Vay's masterly reconstruction is a fine memorial.- Jane Mays, Daily Mail, London

He has researched the story well and tells it with great passion, making the full facts public for the first time. - The Railway Magazine, UK.

International must-read. - Dominion-Post, Wellington, New Zealand

About the Author:

Benedict le Vay is the author of best-sellers Eccentric Britain, Eccentric London, Eccentric Oxford and Eccentric Cambridge. He is a father of two, and has worked as a journalist on leading papers in Britain, Hong Kong and New Zealand. He describes himself as a 'rather bad potter and yachtsman'.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1492339377
• ISBN 13: 9781492339373
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204