Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Railway That United America by Stephen E. Ambrose - 09/05/2005

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UK: Pocket Books, 1997. Soft cover. Very Good. 13 x 2.8 x 19.8 cm. NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad - the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the other labourers who did the backbreaking and dangerous work on the tracks. The US government pitted two companies - the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads - against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. Locomotives, rails and spikes were shipped from the East through Panama or around South America to the West, or lugged across the country to the Plains. In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise, with its huge expenditure of brainpower, muscle and sweat, comes vibrantly to life.

Pocket Books. Very Good. 198mm / 130mm. Paperback. 2005. 431 pages. <br>NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD is the story of the m en who built the transcontinental railroad - the investors who ri sked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked , and sometimes lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immi grants, ... .