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Author: Emily Stead
Publisher:
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781783120116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a wonderful companion to the new special film 'King of the Railway'. It features profiles on all much-loved Thomas and Friends characters, plus all you need to know about the new faces in the new film.
Author: R. B. Fleming
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2007-10-01
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 0774853913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the first two decades of this century, Sir William Mackenzie was one of Canada's best known entrepreneurs. He Spearheading some of the largest and most technologically advanced projects undertaken in Canada, he built a business empire that stretched from Montreal to British Columbia and to Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo in Brazil. It included gas, electric, telephone and transit utilities, railroads, hotels, and steamships as well as substantial coal mining, whaling, and timber interests. But when he died in 1923, his estate was virtually bankrupt as a result of the dramatic collapse of his Canadian Northern Railway during the First World War. In a business biography intended as much for general readers as for a scholarly audience, Fleming offers a revisionist perspective on Mackenzie. He dispels the simplistic approach of those historians and journalists who have depicted Mackenzie and his partner Sir Donald Mann as melodramatic crooks who could have stepped out of the pages of Huckleberry Finn.
Author: Robert Beaumont
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2016-11-10
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1472246535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeorge Hudson - the eponymous Railway King - started his career with a stroke of luck, inheriting £27,000 (a fortune in 1827) from a distant relative. He invested successfully in the North Midland Railway, then formed his own Midland Railway, raising £5 million and bribing MPs along the way. But from his glory in 1845 he fell into disgrace, admitting corruption and selling land he did not own. He was eventually imprisoned in York Castle and died a broken man in 1871. His story provides an excellent insight into nineteenth-century politics and industrial progress, full of moral dilemmas and a testimony to the growth of the railways in Britain - a timely subject.
Author: Wilbert V. Awdry
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780679888796
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe numbers one through ten are introduced via a railroad setting.
Author: Random House
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Published: 2020-07-07
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 0593127617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeet all of the engines in this Thomas & Friends board book with a padded cover! Train-loving boys and girls ages 2 to 5 will love to discover fascinating facts about Thomas, Nia, Bertie, Harold, and all their favorite Thomas & Friends characters in this sturdy board book with padded cover. In the early 1940s, a loving father crafted a small blue wooden train engine for his son, Christopher. The stories that this father, the Reverend W Awdry, made up to accompany the wonderful toy were first published in 1945 and became the basis for the Railway Series, a collection of books about Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends--and the rest is history. Thomas & Friends(TM) are now a big extended family of engines and others on the Island of Sodor. They appear not only in books but also in television shows and movies, and as a wide variety of beautifully made toys. The adventures of Thomas and his friends, which are always, ultimately, about friendship, have delighted generations of train-loving boys and girls for more than 70 years and will continue to do so for generations to come.
Author: Beryl Evans
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-11-22
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 1534401245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFans of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower will definitely want this picture book about a train engine and his devoted engineer. Engineer Bob has a secret: His train engine, Charlie the Choo-Choo, is alive…and also his best friend. From celebrated author Beryl Evans and illustrator Ned Dameron comes a story about friendship, loyalty, and hard work.
Author: W. Awdry
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 0449815358
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"As seen on DVD! King of the Railway, the movie."
Author: Corinne Fenton
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2016-11-08
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 0763680974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBob the Railway Dog was everyone's friend in the early days of the Australian railroad. Based on a real dog who rode the rails in the late nineteenth century.
Author: Colson Whitehead
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2018-01-30
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0345804325
DOWNLOAD EBOOK#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. • The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!
