Author: Edgar A. Haine
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Railways Across the Andes
Author: Edgar A. Haine
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Railways of the Andes
Author: Brian Fawcett
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Report Upon the Practicability of a Railway Across the Andes, at the Planchon Pass, Province of Mendoza, Etc. Translated and Published by Order of the Buenos Ayres Government
Author: Emilio ROSSETTI
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Languages : en
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Languages : en
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Across the Andes
Author: Buenos Ayres and Pacific Railway
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Category : Andes
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Category : Andes
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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A New Railroad Across the Andes
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Railroad Across the Andes
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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The Old Patagonian Express
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547524005
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The acclaimed travel writer journeys by train across the Americas from Boston to Patagonia in this international bestselling travel memoir. Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Paul Theroux takes a grand railway adventure first across the United States and then south through Mexico, Central America, and across the Andes until he winds up on the meandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine. His epic commute finally comes to a halt in a desolate land of cracked hills and thorn bushes that reaches toward Antarctica. Along the way, Theroux demonstrates how train travel can reveal “"the social miseries and scenic splendors” of a continent. And through his perceptive prose we learn that what matters most are the people he meets along the way, including the monologuing Mr. Thornberry in Costa Rica, the bogus priest of Cali, and the blind Jorge Luis Borges, who delights in having Theroux read Robert Louis Stevenson to him.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547524005
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The acclaimed travel writer journeys by train across the Americas from Boston to Patagonia in this international bestselling travel memoir. Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Paul Theroux takes a grand railway adventure first across the United States and then south through Mexico, Central America, and across the Andes until he winds up on the meandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine. His epic commute finally comes to a halt in a desolate land of cracked hills and thorn bushes that reaches toward Antarctica. Along the way, Theroux demonstrates how train travel can reveal “"the social miseries and scenic splendors” of a continent. And through his perceptive prose we learn that what matters most are the people he meets along the way, including the monologuing Mr. Thornberry in Costa Rica, the bogus priest of Cali, and the blind Jorge Luis Borges, who delights in having Theroux read Robert Louis Stevenson to him.
Railways of South America
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Across the Andes
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Languages : es
Pages : 46
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Languages : es
Pages : 46
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Ghost Train Through the Andes
Author: Michael Jacobs
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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It was not until long after his grandmother, Sophie, had died, that Michael Jacobs was eventually permitted to read the lengthy and passionate letters that his grandfather Bethel had written her from nine thousand miles away. In these letters, Jacobs discovered a remarkable story of hardship, deprivation and enduring love. His grandfather's work on the railway through the Andes was exhausting and desperately lonely. He had little in common with his fellow workers and became consumed by a mounting despondency, from which only his love for Sophie could save him. But, as the months and years of separation passed, the world in which Sophie was blossoming appeared more and more remote from his own. Michael Jacobs' journey back through time takes him from a rain-swept Hull churchyard to desolate Antofagasta in Chile and to the former silver capital of Potosí. Climbing through ghostly, lunar-like scenery towards the snow-capped summits of the Andes, he follows the route of his grandfather's railway - across giant rocky plateaux, through terrifyingly steep gorges and valleys of tropical lushness, and past grim mining townships buffeted by winds, rain and snow - to reveal an extraordinary love story.
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
It was not until long after his grandmother, Sophie, had died, that Michael Jacobs was eventually permitted to read the lengthy and passionate letters that his grandfather Bethel had written her from nine thousand miles away. In these letters, Jacobs discovered a remarkable story of hardship, deprivation and enduring love. His grandfather's work on the railway through the Andes was exhausting and desperately lonely. He had little in common with his fellow workers and became consumed by a mounting despondency, from which only his love for Sophie could save him. But, as the months and years of separation passed, the world in which Sophie was blossoming appeared more and more remote from his own. Michael Jacobs' journey back through time takes him from a rain-swept Hull churchyard to desolate Antofagasta in Chile and to the former silver capital of Potosí. Climbing through ghostly, lunar-like scenery towards the snow-capped summits of the Andes, he follows the route of his grandfather's railway - across giant rocky plateaux, through terrifyingly steep gorges and valleys of tropical lushness, and past grim mining townships buffeted by winds, rain and snow - to reveal an extraordinary love story.