2024 Nothing Like It in the World SIGNÉ par Stephen Ambrose Limited 1er (1 de 1650)

Nothing Like it in the World SIGNED by Stephen Ambrose Limited 1st (1 of 1650)

Hand-numbered 375 of 1650

Synopsis

Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It 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 laborers who did the backbreaking and dangerous work on the tracks.

The U.S. 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 Ambroses hands, this enterprise, with its huge expenditure of brainpower, muscle, and sweat, comes vibrantly to life.

Condition and Terms

This book is in excellent, unused or very gently-used condition. There are no attached bookplates or embossed seals. Sharp corners, no obvious scuffs or rubs. There are little to no scratches/marks to the gilded page-edging (see photos). Please see the photographs for best description.

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