Train: Riding the Rails that Created the Modern World from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief - New SIGNED 1st Edition/1st Printing

Zoellner, Tom

ISBN 10: 0670025283 / ISBN 13: 9780670025282

Published by Viking, New York, 2014

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New and *SIGNED* 1st Edition/1st Printing hardcover in new dust jacket. "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 once 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 awesome gift for the train enthusiast. Will be bubble-wrapped and shipped in a sturdy box to ensure safe delivery. Seller Inventory # ABH65

Bibliographic Details

Title: Train: Riding the Rails that Created the ...

Publisher: Viking, New York

Publication Date: 2014

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: New

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

A revelatory, entertaining account of the world's most indispensable mode of transportation Tom Zoellner loves trains with a ferocious passion. In his new book he chronicles the innovation and sociological impact of the railway technology that changed the world, and could very well change it again. From the frigid trans-Siberian railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the futuristic MagLev trains, Zoellner offers a stirring story of man's relationship with trains. Zoellner examines both the mechanics of the rails and their engines and how they helped societies evolve. Not only do trains transport people and goods in an efficient manner, but they also reduce pollution and dependency upon oil. Zoellner also considers America's culture of ambivalence to mass transit, using the perpetually stalled line between Los Angeles and San Francisco as a case study in bureaucracy and public indifference. Train presents both an entertaining history of railway travel around the world while offering a serious and impassioned case for the future of train travel.

Product Description:

Our modern world is built on one indispensable form of transport: the railway. Its gifts are everywhere, in the shape of our cities,coal-fired power, and the food we eat. In this captivating book, the author rides from the birthplace of the locomotive in Britain, crosses Russia on the Trans-Siberian, crests the Andes on a rattling coal train and jams with blues musicians across the USA as he explores the history, geography, cultural resonance and sheer romance of the railroad.