The Old Iron Road: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West - Couverture souple

Bain, David Haward

 
9781496230485: The Old Iron Road: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1496230485 ISBN 13 : 9781496230485
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2022

Synopsis

In the summer of 2000 David Haward Bain and his family left their home in Vermont and headed west in search of America's past. Spiritually, their journey began on a Kansas trail where the author's grandmother was born in a covered wagon in 1889. Between the Missouri River and the Golden Gate, they retraced the entire route of the first transcontinental railroad and large stretches of the Oregon and California trails, and the equally colorful old Lincoln Highway. Following vanished iron rails and wagon wheel ruts, bumping down backroads and main streets, they discovered the deep, restless, uniquely American spirit of adventure that connects our past to our present.

A superb writer and an exacting researcher, Bain conjures up a marvelous sense of coming unstuck in time as he lingers in the ghost towns and battlegrounds, prairies and river ports, trainyards, museums, deserts, and diners that line his cruise west to California. Bain encounters a fascinating cast of characters, both historic and contemporary, as well as memories of his grandparents and the journeys that shaped his own heritage.

Writing in the tradition of William Least Heat-Moon and Ian Frazier, and with an engaging warmth and a deep grasp of history all his own, Bain has fashioned a quintessentially American journey.

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À propos de l?auteur

David Haward Bain is the author of the award-winning Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad and Sitting in Darkness: Americans in the Philippines. His articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in Smithsonian magazine, American Heritage, Kenyon Review, the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, and Newsday. Bain taught literature and creative writing at Middlebury College for thirty-two years.

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1496230485
ISBN 13 
9781496230485
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
470
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780670033089: The Old Iron Road: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0670033081 ISBN 13 :  9780670033089
Editeur : Viking Pr, 2004
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