Last Train to Toronto: A Canadian Rail Odyssey
by Terry Pindell
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Describing the year he traveled eighteen thousand miles of Canadian rails, the author provides a view of Canada from the vanishing railroad, exploring the culture of the Canadian people and recording the final fun of the eastbound train, the "Canadian".Tags
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Common Knowledge
- Important places
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Epigraph
- Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season.
- Robert Frost - Dedication
- For Nancy --- "When I have the words,
I don't have the chance; when I have
the chance, I don't have the words." - First words
- The train comes to a halt just a few minutes out of Montreal's central station.
- Blurbers
- Maynard, Joyce; Duncan, Dayton; Ralston, Al; Bryson, Bill
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Travel, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 385.0971 — Social sciences Commerce, communications & transportation Railroad transportation Subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography North America Canada
- LCC
- TF26 .P56 — Technology Railroad engineering and operation Railroad engineering and operation
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 36
- Popularity
- 777,091
- Rating
- (4.25)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 4
