Roaming the Rails - Volume One, Part One
Author | : Stewart Blencowe |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
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ISBN | : 9783756536665 |
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Author | : Stewart Blencowe |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
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ISBN | : 9783756536665 |
Author | : Stewart Blencowe |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
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ISBN | : 9783756536870 |
Author | : Lachlan Main |
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Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 2017-03-13 |
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ISBN | : 9781520822129 |
A photographic tour across some of Scotland's railway routes
Author | : George F. Heiron |
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Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9780711010116 |
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Release | : 2012 |
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ISBN | : 9781301453290 |
Hopping a freight in the St. Louis rail yards, Ted Conover0́4winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award0́4embarks on his dream trip, traveling the rails with "the knights of the road." Equipped with rummage store clothing, a bedroll, and his notebooks, Conover immerses himself in the peculiar culture of the hobo, where handshakes and intoductions are foreign, but where everyone knows where the Sally (Salvation Army) and the Willy (Goodwill) are. Along the way he encounters unexpected charity (a former cop goes out of his way to offer Conover a dollar) and indignities (what do you do when there are no public bathrooms?) and learns how to survive on the road.But above all, Conover gets to know the men and women who, for one reason or another, live this life. There's Lonny, who accepts that there are some towns he can't enter before dark because he's black, and Pistol Pete, a cowboy who claims his son is a doctor and his daughter a ballerina, and Sheba Sheila Sheils, who's built herself a house out of old tires. By turns resourceful and desperate, generous and mistrusting, independent and communal, philosophical and profoundly cynical, the tramps Conover meets show him a segment of humanity outside society, neither wholly romantic nor wholly tragic, and very much like the rest of us.
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Total Pages | : 1974 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Various |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 6801 |
Release | : 2021-09-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1000519139 |
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is widely considered one the great modern writers in English literature. This 21-volume set contains titles, originally published between 1976 and 1990 as well as a biography from 1957 written by one of his closest friends. The first 18 books are a set of concordances and indexes to Conrad’s printed works, which were part of a project directed by Todd K. Bender at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA and are among the first attempts to use the power of computers to enhance our reading environment and assist in lexicography, scholarly editing, and literary analysis. The set also contains a meticulously compiled bibliography of writings on Joseph Conrad, as well as an original and powerful analysis of his major work.
Author | : Errol Lincoln Uys |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2004-06 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1135942293 |
Through letters and photographs, profiles teenagers who hopped the freight trains during the Great Depression in order to find adventure, seek employment, or escape poverty.
Author | : Christopher Goffard |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2018-11-13 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 198211326X |
A collection of newspaper stories by award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard—including “Dirty John,” the basis for the hit podcast and the upcoming Bravo scripted series starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana. Since its release in fall 2017, the “Dirty John” podcast—about a conman who terrorizes a Southern California family—has been downloaded more than 20 million times, and will soon premiere as a scripted drama on Bravo starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana. The story, which also ran as a print series in the Los Angeles Times, wasn’t unfamiliar terrain to its writer, Christopher Goffard. Over two decades at newspapers from Florida to California, Goffard has reported probingly on the shadowy, unseen corners of society. This book gathers together for the first time “Dirty John” and the rest of his very best work. “The $40 Lawyer” provides an inside account of a young public defender’s rookie year in the legal trenches. “Framed” offers an unblinking chronicle of suburban mayhem (and is currently being developed by Netflix as a film starring Julia Roberts). A man wrongly imprisoned for rape, train-riding runaways in love, a Syrian mother forced to leave her children in order to save them, a boy who grows up to become a cop as a way of honoring his murdered sister, another boy who struggles with the knowledge that his father is on death row: these stories reveal the complexities of human nature, showing people at both their most courageous and their most flawed. Goffard shared in the Los Angeles Times’ Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2011 and has twice been a Pulitzer finalist for feature writing. This collection—a must-read for fans of both true-crime and first-rate narrative nonfiction—underscores his reputation as one of today’s most original journalistic voices.
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Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Clapper rail |
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