Slow Train to Paradise: How Dutch Investment Helped Build American Railroads

Bookseller

David Kaye Books & Memorabilia (US)

Bookseller's Inventory #

34220

Title

Slow Train to Paradise: How Dutch Investment Helped Build American Railroads

Author

Veenendaal, Augustus J

Format/Binding

Hardcover

Book Condition

Used

Edition

First Edition ~1st Printing

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Place of Publication

California

Date Published

1996

Bookseller catalogs

Railroad;

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