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  • Nothing Like It in the World

  • The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
  • De: Stephen E. Ambrose
  • Narrado por: Jeffrey DeMunn
  • Duração: 15 horas e 37 minutos

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Nothing Like It in the World

De: Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrado por: Jeffrey DeMunn
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Sinopse

Nothing Like It in the World is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad. In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise comes to life. 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. As its peak the work force approached the size of Civil War armies, with as many as 15,000 workers on each line. The surveyors, the men who picked the route, lived off buffalo, deer, and antelope.

In building a railroad, there is only one decisive spot - the end of the track. Nothing like this great work had ever been seen in the world when the last spike - a golden one - was driven in Promontory Peak, Utah, in 1869, as the Central Pacific and Union Pacific tracks were joined.

Ambrose writes with power and eloquence about the brave men - the famous and the unheralded, ordinary men doing the extraordinary - who accomplished the spectacular feat that made the continent into a nation.

©2000 Stephen E. Ambrose (P)2000 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Resumo da Crítica

"... telling of the railroad's physical construction will be a sure winner with the author's legions of readers." ( Booklist)
"... bears the reader on shoulders of wonder and excitement." ( The New York Times)

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