Author: Kevin DerrickPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445669900
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
A nostalgic look back at the days of steam on the Eastern Region.
Author: Kevin Derrick
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Author: Walter LordSophie's World
Author: Jostein GaarderPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466804270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Author: Gladys Mullet KauffmanGiants of Steam
Author: Jonathan GlanceyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781459684348
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The thrilling story of the last, and greatest, generation of steam railway locomotives in regular main line service: a story of invention, skill and passion, Giants of Steam reveals how the true advocates of steam's glory days pushed its design and performance to remarkable limits, taking these powerful and beautifully designed machines to new heights against a backdrop of the political upheavals and military conflicts of the mid twentieth century. Glancey tells the stories of the greatest of the 'steam men', the charismatic engineers who designed these machines and put them to use. Giants of Steam also reveals how steam design has continued to progress against the odds in recent decades, while enthusiasm for the steam locomotive itself is far from burning out.
Steam Bird
Author: Hilbert SchenckPublisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 9780812554007
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
The Steam Bird, America's secret weapon, a nuclear-powered steam locomotive, is ordered into the air despite radiation leaks and design defects, a scheme that may be enough to provoke World War III
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Author: Joshua Atkins Nickerson