Bøger af Brent Cassan

A whimsical gallop through Texas history, offering a panorama of landscapes for the playing out of the trials and dreams of a varied cast of characters: Texas settlers, rustlers, city dwellers, and drifters who pass across the poetic page.

A research tool offering more than 16,000 titles spanning 150 years of publishing on American railroads. With detailed index.

Dry, hot, cold, wet, the African continent presents an endless range of physical environments. Cultures abound, and a white man's interaction with Africa defines and inevitably illuminates time and space, specifies the pain and elation in what its environments present. Free verse lends its freedom to a fresh look at life in desert, jungle, and high mountain locales, allows the poetic hand to nail down its involvement with birth and death, freedom's wish and the endless cycle of renewal and defeat.

A research tool, with detailed index, offering more than 16,000 titles covering a century and a half of books published on American railroading.

A collection of poems exploring the world of the familiar and the foreign as it delves deeply into the personal journeys of it characters.

The primary purpose of this book is to alert the reader to over 3,000 publications on the rise and fall of the classic street and interurban railroad. It has made a special effort to go back and present many early publications that cover the introduction of this form of transportation as a central actor in the growth of every North American city. A detailed index is provided and this shows the corporate name of hundreds of railroads, names of cities, and the names of certain major players in the expansion of street railroads. Entries are given for cars and equipment, motors and controllers, car builders, strikes, statistics, and so on. It includes most of the books issued by major publishers, as well as dissertations and federal government documents. Publications for the major professional organizations involved over a hundred year period are also provided. I sincerely hope you find items of interest.

This bibliography will serve as a useful starting point for research on street and interurban railroads. It includes books from standard trade publishers, as well as government documents, and engineering reports.

Now, for the first time, researchers of American railroads have a comprehensive bibliography to assist them with their needs. With over 9,000 indexed book entries, HEAVY METAL offers material on individual railroads and into the character of railroading itself. Some idea of its depth can be gained from the number of titles for selected subjects: steam locomotives (1,200), freight cars (520), Pennsylvania RR (290), electric railroads (155), Stations (140), Southern Pacific (110). It covers the range of subjects that this great transportation enterprise entails: engineering, laws and legislation, technology, safety, biography, statistics, and much more.