Nothing Like It in the World

Name: Nothing Like It in the World
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SKU: 9781416511427
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The Men Who Built the Railway That United America

Autor: Stephen E. Ambrose

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NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad -- the...

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Autor

Stephen E. Ambrose

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2005

Pagini

432

EAN

9781416511427

ISBN

1416511423

Enbook ID

04215349

Editura

Simon & Schuster

Greutate

460

Dimensiuni

130 x 198 x 28

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NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad -- the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the other labourers who did the backbreaking and dangerous work on the tracks. The US government pitted two companies -- the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads -- against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. Locomotives, rails and spikes were shipped from the East through Panama or around South America to the West, or lugged across the country to the Plains. In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise, with its huge expenditure of brainpower, muscle and sweat, comes vibrantly to life.

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