Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression - Couverture souple

Uys, Errol Lincoln

 
9781575001364: Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression
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ISBN 10 : 1575001365 ISBN 13 : 9781575001364
Editeur : TV Books Inc, 2000

Synopsis

Book by Uys Errol Lincoln

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Présentation de l'éditeur

"There is no feeling in the world like sitting in a side-door Pullman and watching the world go by, listening to the clickety-clack of the wheels, hearing that old steam whistle blowing for crossings and towns." -George Phillips in Riding the Rails
At the height of the Great Depression, 250,000 teenage hoboes were riding the rails and roaming America. Some left home out of desperation and went looking for work and a better life, sometimes traveling hundreds of miles on the rumor of a job waiting farther down the line. Others left out of boredom; still others with a wanderlust and romantic idea of life on the road.

The restless youth of these boxcar boys and girls, many who went from "middle-class gentility to scrabble-ass poor" overnight, is recaptured in Riding the Rails. Based on the award-winning documentary, this book dispels the myths of a hobo existence and reveals the hard stories of a daring generation of American teenagers-forgotten heroes-who survived some of the hardest times in our nations' history. Whether you're a "gaycat" (novice rider) or a "dingbat" (seasoned hobo), Riding the Rails is entertaining and inspiring, recapturing a time when the country was "dying by inches."

Biographie de l'auteur

Errol Lincoln Uys is a renowned writer and editor. He was the editor-in-chief of Reader's Digest in South Africa and collaborated with James A. Michener on his South African novel The Covenant. Uys is also the author of the well-received novel, Brazil. He lives in Cambridge, Massachussetts.

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Éditeur
TV Books Inc
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1575001365
ISBN 13 
9781575001364
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
303
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780692302118: Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0692302115 ISBN 13 :  9780692302118
Editeur : T.E.Winter & Sons, 2014
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