Nothing Like it in the World: The men who Built the Railway That United America [Audiobook] download free by Stephen E. Ambrose
- Listen audiobook: Nothing Like it in the World: The men who Built the Railway That United America
- Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Release date: 2005/10/31
- Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9781416511427
- Rating: 7.08 of 10
- Votes: 547
- Review by: Clayton Gates
- Review rating: 7.53 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/17
- Duration: 5H22M51S in 256 kbps (86.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-20
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, FLAC, OPUS, MP3, WAV, MP4, WMA, AIFF (compression RAR, XZ, TAR.BZ2, AZW, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 432
- Includes a PDF summary of 51 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 39M39S (10.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Industrialisation & Industrial History, Trains & Railways
- Download servers: Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, 4Shared, FreakShare, Uploadable. Compressed in RAR, XZ, TAR.BZ2, AZW, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 20.49 USD
- Dimensions: 130x198x28mm
- Weight: 464g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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