
Last train to Toronto: a Canadian rail odyssey
Sciences et technologies, Canada (voyage et géographie), Essais et documents généraux, Voyages et géographie
Audio avec voix humaine
Résumé
The author of Making Tracks: An American Rail Odyssey (RC 32611) recounts his year of train travel across Canada, which ended with the Canadian's final run eastward from Vancouver. Pindell shows that the development of the railroad played an integral… role in the history of Canada, just as it did in the United States. He includes personal observations about the landscape, people, separatism, and nostalgia