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Far Wheels A Railroad Safari By C S Small Dust Jacket 1959 160 pages
Far Wheels A Railroad Safari By C S Small with Dust Jacket 1959 160 pages
The reader of this exciting new volume will experience the vicarious thrill of traveling on the rails in far picturesque lands where the steam train is still the major factor in transport, and may be for many the sole daily (if not weekly) contact with the wider world. Mr Small, an American oil man, wrote this book in Tokyo but duty and service have taken him over the world from Japan to Mozambique, Port Sudan to Peru. Everywhere he has sought out and ridden upon the local trains. In a manner informal but well-informed, he sketches the setting of these railroads and their sometimes almost comic history.
Locomotive data will make even the expert happy. There are numerous sketch maps, but the most remarkable feature of the book is its unsurpassed collection of photographs, mostly of that rare kind that show not just an engine or even the train but the landscape and the spirit of the place. This is a highly unusual travel book, assured of a permanent niche in world railway literature.
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