Hear that train whistle blow! how the railroad changed the world
Takes a look at the history of rail transportation, focussing on how it transformed societies from isolated communities which rarely communicated or traded into unified nations.
| Main Author: | Meltzer, Milton, 1915- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Random House,
c2004.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: |
Landmark books
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| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
Takes a look at the history of rail transportation, focussing on how it transformed societies from isolated communities which rarely communicated or traded into unified nations. |
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| Physical Description: |
157 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Awards: |
A Junior Library Guild selection. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-146) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0375815635 (trade) : 037591563X (lib. bdg.) 0375829229 (pbk.) |
| Author Notes: |
In 1956, he published his first book A Pictorial History of the Negro American, which was co-written by Langston Hughes. They also collaborated on Langston Hughes: A Biography, which was published in 1968 and received the Carter G. Woodson award. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 110 books for young people including Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? about the stock market crash that led to the Great Depression; Never to Forget about the Holocaust; and There Comes a Time about the Civil Rights movement. He also addressed such topics as crime, ancient Egypt, the immigrant experience, labor movements, photography, piracy, poverty, racism, and slavery. He wrote numerous biographies including ones on Mary McLeod Bethune, Lydia Maria Child, Dorothea Lange, Margaret Sanger, and Henry David Thoreau. He received the 2000 Regina Medal and the 2001 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for his body of work and his lasting contribution to children's literature. He died of esophageal cancer on September 19, 2009 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) |