Author: George A. CrofuttPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pacific States
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Crofutt's New Overland Tourist and Pacific Coast Guide ...
Author: George A. CrofuttPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pacific States
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Railroad Gazetteer
Author: Southern Pacific Passenger Trains
Author: Brian SolomonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781610605076
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The Official Railway Guide
Author: The Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States, Porto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba
Author: Southern Pacific Bulletin
Author: More Classic American Railroads
Author: Mike SchaferPublisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 076030758X
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
In the latest mystery from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd, World War I nurse and amateur sleuth Bess Crawford investigates an old murder that occurred during her childhood in India, a search for the truth that will transform her and leave her pondering a troubling question: How can facts lie? Bess Crawford enjoyed a wondrous childhood in India, where her father, a colonel in the British Army, was stationed on the Northwest Frontier. But an unforgettable incident darkened that happy time. In 1908, Colonel Crawford's regiment discovered that it had a murderer in its ranks, an officer who killed five people in India and England yet was never brought to trial. In the eyes of many of these soldiers, men defined by honor and duty, the crime was a stain on the regiment's reputation and on the good name of Bess's father, the Colonel Sahib, who had trained the killer. A decade later, tending to the wounded on the battlefields of France during World War I, Bess learns from a dying Indian sergeant that the supposed murderer, Lieutenant Wade, is alive—and serving at the Front. Bess cannot believe the shocking news. According to reliable reports, Wade's body had been seen deep in the Khyber Pass, where he had died trying to reach Afghanistan. Soon, though, her mind is racing. How had he escaped from India? What had driven a good man to murder in cold blood? Wanting answers, she uses her leave to investigate. In the village where the first three killings took place, she discovers that the locals are certain that the British soldier was innocent. Yet the present owner of the house where the crime was committed believes otherwise, and is convinced that Bess's father helped Wade flee. To settle the matter once and for all, Bess sets out to find Wade and let the courts decide. But when she stumbles on the horrific truth, something that even the famous writer Rudyard Kipling had kept secret all his life, she is shaken to her very core. The facts will damn Wade even as they reveal a brutal reality, a reality that could have been her own fate.
Catalogue of the Hopkins Railway Library
Author: Stanford University. LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Mapping And Imagination In The Great Basin
Author: Richard V. FrancavigliaPublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874176409
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Great Basin was the last region of continental North America to be explored and mapped, and it remained largely a mystery to Euro-Americans until well into the nineteenth century. In Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin, geographer-historian Richard Francaviglia shows how the Great Basin gradually emerged from its “cartographic silence” as terra incognita and how this fascinating process both paralleled the development of the sciences of surveying, geology, hydrology, and cartography and reflected the changing geopolitical aspirations of the European colonial powers and the United States. Francaviglia’s interdisciplinary account of the mapping of the Great Basin combines a chronicle of the exploration of the region with a history of the art and science of cartography and of the political, economic, and cultural contexts in which maps are created. It also offers a compelling, wide-ranging discussion that combines a description of the daunting physical realities of the Great Basin with a cogent examination of the ways humans, from early Native Americans to nineteenth-century surveyors to twentieth-century highway and air travelers, have understood, defined, and organized this space, psychologically and through the medium of maps. Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin continues Francaviglia’s insightful, richly nuanced meditation on the Great Basin landscape that began in Believing in Place.
The Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1534
Book Description
Also time tables of railroads in Central America. Air line schedules.