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The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885 [Audiobook] download free by Pierre Berton

The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885 Audiobook download free by Pierre Berton
  • Listen audiobook: The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885
  • Author: Pierre Berton
  • Release date: 2002/9/22
  • Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE USA INC
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Transportation
  • ISBN: 9780385658416
  • Rating: 8.22 of 10
  • Votes: 261
  • Review by: Cayson Arce
  • Review rating: 9.18 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/11/11
  • Duration: 6H4M14S in 256 kbps (99.2 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-15
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, MPC, OPUS, WMA, WAV, MP3, MPEG4, AIFF (compression RAR, XZ, ZIP, LZ)
  • Total pages original book: 496
  • Includes a PDF summary of 40 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 27M56S (8 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: In the four years between 1881 and 1885, Canada was forged into one nation by the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Last Spike reconstructs the incredible story of how some 2,000 miles of steel crossed the continent in just five years - exactly half the time stipulated in the contract. Pierre Berton recreates the adventures that were part of this vast undertaking: the railway on the brink of bankruptcy, with one hour between it and ruin; the extraordinary land boom of Winnipeg in 1881-1882; and the epic tale of how William Van Horne rushed 3,000 soldiers over a half-finished railway to quell the Riel Rebellion. Dominating the whole saga are the men who made it all possible - a host of astonishing characters: Van Horne, the powerhouse behind the vision of a transcontinental railroad; Rogers, the eccentric surveyor; Onderdonk, the cool New Yorker; Stephen, the most emotional of businessmen; Father Lacombe, the black-robed voyageur; Sam Steele, of the North West Mounted Police; Gabriel Dumont, the Prince of the Prairies; more than 7,000 Chinese workers, toiling and dying in the canyons of the Fraser Valley; and many more - land sharks, construction geniuses, politicians, and entrepreneurs - all of whom played a role in the founding of the new Canada west of Ontario.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Trains & Railways, History Of The Americas
  • Download servers: MEGA, Mediafire, Casebox, Microsoft OneDrive, Hotfile, Turbobit.net. Compressed in RAR, XZ, ZIP, LZ
  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 23.00 USD
  • Dimensions: 156x229x31mm
  • Weight: 531g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: India

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