Название: Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
Автор: Stephen E. Ambrose
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9780743210836
Год: 2000
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 432
Размер: 20,1 МБ
Язык: Английский
In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E. Ambrose offers a historical successor to his universally acclaimed Undaunted Courage, which recounted the explorations of the West by Lewis and Clark.
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 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.