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The Natchez Parkway stretches 450 miles from the hills of Nashville, Tennessee, to the rich farmlands of Natchez, Mississippi. Originally an Indian path, the Natchez Trace became the road that opened the forested wilderness of the Deep South to settlers, soldiers, boatmen, and outlaws. Administered by the National Park Service, this modern-day Parkway entices cyclists from around the world. / Author: Glen Wanner / ISBN: 0963779869

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Fascinating and lavishly illustrated history of the Los Angles and Salt Lake Railroad, the Union Pacific's Salt Lake Route. The author, a noted railroad historian, traces the line from its origins as the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad under Sen. William A. Clark. The book provides a detailed look at the construction of this and predecessor lines, the extension into Utah's Tintic mining district, construction across the great Amercian desert, trackage rights from the Santa Fe over Cajon Pass, purchase of the Los Angeles Terminal, and establishment of the famed Los Angeles Limited. E. H. Harriman's role in obtaining a 50% interest in the line and the eventual merger into UP are described, as are the battles with floods in the Meadow Valley Was and Afton Canyon, freight and passenger operations, dispatching and signaling problems, early dieselizatin due to water shortages, the Mission style stations, tunnels, bridges, shops and physical plant. Also covered are service to Zion, Bryce, Cedar Breaks and the Grand Canyon, development of the desert helper district, the discovery of oil on Terminal Island, the coming of the streamliners, branch line operations, electrification of the Glendale line, the effect of World War II, and the arrival of CTC, piggyback and container service, and the Day Live Stock service. All the locomotives are on view -- steam and diesels of every kind, Centennials, U-50s, SD-40s and experimental turbines. including Illustrated throughout with black and white photos and a few color photos. With numerous maps, timetables. 256 pages.

Silicon Valley in California and Route 128 in Massachusetts are America's centres of electronics innovation and entrepreneurship. The regions are similar in many respects: both trace their origins to unversity research and military spending, and both faced severe downturns in the early 1980s. Today, however, Silicon Valley is flourishing again while Route 128 continues to decline. Why did Silicon Valley adapt successfully to intensifying international competition, while Route 128 ceded its longstanding advantage in computer design and manufacturing to the west? The author argues that despite similar histories and technologies, Silicon Valley developed the type of decentralized industrial system that encourages experimentation, collaboration and collective learning among networks of specialist companies, whereas Route 128 came to be dominated by a few self-sufficient corporations. Saxenian demonstrates that Route 128 was slow to adjust to changing markets because skill and technology remained confined within independent firms. In contrast, companies in Silicon Valley created a regional advantage by drawing on local knowledge and relationships to create new markets, products and applications. In doing so, they blurred the traditional boundaries among customers, supplier and competitors. The result of numerous interviews with executives, entrepreneurs and policymakers, this analysis highlights the importance of local sources of competitive advantage in a volatile world economy. It also underscores the need to develop regional, as well as national and sectoral, economic policies.

Well-done history of the Burlington Route, also known as the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and parent of the Burlington Northern (now BNSF). This book traces the Burlington from its start in Aurora, Illinois to its rise to become one of America's great railroads. Chapters cover the founding, passenger service, gas-electric motor cars, Zephyrs, transcontinental streamliners, commuter trains, freight and mixed trains, coal trains, subsidiaries, and the transition to Burlington Northern. 174 pages with index.

Fascinating history of the Colorado & Southern and its predecessors -- the Clear Creek narrow gauge, the Colorado Central, and the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf. Packed with black and white photos (and three colorful frontispieces) from every era, this book traces the story of the first railway to penetrate directly into the Colorado Rockies, a line which inspired the construction of other narrow gauge railroads and the enthusiasm of history and railroad buffs. With maps and timetables. 223 pages with index.

Fascinating and lavishly illustrated history of the Los Angles and Salt Lake Railroad, the Union Pacific's Salt Lake Route. The author, a noted railroad historian, traces the line from its origins as the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad under Sen. William A. Clark. The book provides a detailed look at the construction of this and predecessor lines, the extension into Utah's Tintic mining district, construction across the great Amercian desert, trackage rights from the Santa Fe over Cajon Pass, purchase of the Los Angeles Terminal, and establishment of the famed Los Angeles Limited. E. H. Harriman's role in obtaining a 50% interest in the line and the eventual merger into UP are described, as are the battles with floods in the Meadow Valley Was and Afton Canyon, freight and passenger operations, dispatching and signaling problems, early dieselizatin due to water shortages, the Mission style stations, tunnels, bridges, shops and physical plant. Also covered are service to Zion, Bryce, Cedar Breaks and the Grand Canyon, development of the desert helper district, the discovery of oil on Terminal Island, the coming of the streamliners, branch line operations, electrification of the Glendale line, the effect of World War II, and the arrival of CTC, piggyback and container service, and the Day Live Stock service. All the locomotives are on view -- steam and diesels of every kind, Centennials, U-50s, SD-40s and experimental turbines. including Illustrated throughout with black and white photos and a few color photos. With numerous maps, timetables. 256 pages.

A pictorial history of the two-lane highway that has become a symbol of American culture traces its inauguration in the 1920s, its span through eight states, the beliefs that contributed to its fame, and the structures and personalities surrounding it. Original.

Looks at the history of Reggae music and traces its development in Jamaica

A companion volume to "The Classic Western American Railroad Routes".  Following the successful and innovative format of the western routes volume, this book traces the development, history and routes of the major eastern American railroads using contemporary maps, photographs, illustrations and ephemera.

Route 128 traces its origins to the late 1920s, when the Massachusetts Department of Public Works cobbled together a makeshift network of existing roads through Boston's suburbs. Between 1947 and 1956, during a statewide push to build new highways, Route 128 was reconstructed as a major regional expressway. The new highway immediately fueled explosive growth in many of the region's once bucolic suburbs.What was once "the road to nowhere" quickly became a major commercial nexus for eastern Massachusetts and a critical link in the region's highway network. The visionary highway project vigorously promoted by William F. Callahan permanently altered the character of the two dozen towns through which it passed. Building Route 128 vividly documents the highway's construction and its impact on towns such as Waltham, Dedham, Lynnfield, and Gloucester. Drawing on previously unpublished images from the Massachusetts Department of Public Works and archives from many of the cities and towns affected, Building Route 128 tells the story of a region forever changed by the highway's construction.

Traces the history of the following trade and travel routes: the Mohawk Trail, the Wilderness Road and other trans-Appalachian routes, the Mississippi Route, and the Santa Fe, Chihuahua, Oregon, and California Trails.

Here is Natchez Trace today, as gripping and hauntingly beautiful as it has been for centuries, captured in photographs and words that bring alive a lush and mysterious landscape. A well-known trail long before nationhood, the 450-mile route linking Nashville, Tennessee, and Natchez, Mississippi, once played a vital role for the most adventuresome people. Exploring the Natchez Trace in these pages is a time trip through early natural and human influences in a region that withstood a rowdy and violent past to evolve into a national backbone. And nature covers it all---cataclysmic geological changes, wildlife, plant life, water, and seasonal changes. Writer/photographer Bert Gildart rewards readers by creating an authentic awareness of splendid, little-known places and spirited people sharing unique events along the Trace.

Au VIIe siècle, le moine chinois Xuanzang se met en route pour l'Inde, afin d'étudier la philosophie bouddhiste chez les maîtres indiens. Suivant la route de la soie, il traverse le désert de Gobi et les montagnes glacées d'Asie centrale, bravant le blizzard et les brigands. En Inde, le moine visite de nombreux lieux saints et monastères pour nourrir sa quête spirituelle. Il revient en Chine dix-huit ans plus tard, après un périple de six mille kilomètres, et en rapporte plus de six cent textes sacrés bouddhiques, qu'il a traduits du sanscrit en chinois. Il consigna un récit de son voyage, qui est aujourd'hui une précieuse source d'informations sur l'époque, sur les régions qu'il a traversées et sur leurs populations, avant leur islamisation. Mishi Saran se lance sur les traces de Xuanzang à travers la Chine, l'Asie centrale et la péninsule indienne. Elle arpente les sites bouddhistes et les royaumes disparus d'Inde, du Pakistan et d'Afghanistan décrits par le moine pèlerin. L'auteur nous rapporte également une description du régime taliban de Kaboul, où elle se trouve peu avant les événements du 11 septembre 2001. L'auteur, née en Inde, expérimente un voyage intérieur à la recherche de ses propres racines, et établit ainsi des ponts entre le VIIe et le XXIe siècle. Un double parcours sur la route de la soie, à travers la spiritualité bouddhiste : celui d'un moine pèlerin du VIIe siècle, et celui d'une femme d'aujourd'hui.

·Stunning, powerful photographs, illuminated by contributions from some of the most eminent writers, thinkers, and journalists specializing in the Middle East and foreign relations, combine to present these roadside inns found along ancient caravan routes in the Muslim worldA 'caravanserai' is a roadside inn found along ancient caravan routes in the Muslim world. For centuries the caravanserais served as staging posts in the Middle East and Central Asia, providing accommodation to traders, pilgrims, and other travelers along the Silk Road that connected China, India, and Europe. The caravanserais were vital nodes in what was in effect the first globalized overland network and trading system. Thousands of these caravanserais were built and successfully operated. They survived empires, caliphates and wars until the demise of the caravan trade. Those that have not vanished, have become crumbling ruins, or survive as hotels, museums, shops, storage space, living quarters, or military outposts. In the tumultuous state of relations between the Western and Muslim worlds today, the caravanserais stand as evidence of ancient multi-cultural exchange and trade. They inspire the quest to find such new platforms of multi-cultural dialogue for the future.Belgian photographer Tom Schutyser has travelled the Silk Road numerous times in fifteen years, first photographing caravanserais in northeast Iran. For this project, Schutyser chose the levant region of Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan, photographing both ruined and restored caravanserais as well as the landscape and surroundings of these buildings, seeking to capture the sense of history still present in these places. His stunning, powerful photographs, illuminated by contributions from some of the most eminent writers, thinkers, and journalists specializing in the Middle East and foreign relations, combine to present a new dimension on the debate about the region as it is today. Text in English and French.

·Stunning, powerful photographs, illuminated by contributions from some of the most eminent writers, thinkers, and journalists specializing in the Middle East and foreign relations, combine to present these roadside inns found along ancient caravan routes in the Muslim worldA 'caravanserai' is a roadside inn found along ancient caravan routes in the Muslim world. For centuries the caravanserais served as staging posts in the Middle East and Central Asia, providing accommodation to traders, pilgrims, and other travelers along the Silk Road that connected China, India, and Europe. The caravanserais were vital nodes in what was in effect the first globalized overland network and trading system. Thousands of these caravanserais were built and successfully operated. They survived empires, caliphates and wars until the demise of the caravan trade. Those that have not vanished, have become crumbling ruins, or survive as hotels, museums, shops, storage space, living quarters, or military outposts. In the tumultuous state of relations between the Western and Muslim worlds today, the caravanserais stand as evidence of ancient multi-cultural exchange and trade. They inspire the quest to find such new platforms of multi-cultural dialogue for the future.Belgian photographer Tom Schutyser has travelled the Silk Road numerous times in fifteen years, first photographing caravanserais in northeast Iran. For this project, Schutyser chose the levant region of Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan, photographing both ruined and restored caravanserais as well as the landscape and surroundings of these buildings, seeking to capture the sense of history still present in these places. His stunning, powerful photographs, illuminated by contributions from some of the most eminent writers, thinkers, and journalists specializing in the Middle East and foreign relations, combine to present a new dimension on the debate about the region as it is today. Text in English and French.

“A self-proclaimed ‘rut nut’ prone to ground-truth his research, Gary L. Pinkerton brings considerable historical and geoarchaeological skills to bear in his in-depth analysis of an often-overlooked early route to Texas. This is, at one level, a detailed biography of a road, but in focusing on a line through the Texas prairies and woodlands that predated formal Anglo-American colonization of the area, the author also makes significant, defining connections that give the reader much more to consider.”—Southwestern Historical Quarterly “Pinkerton’s passion is contagious, and his enthusiasm will strike a chord with lay readers as well as scholars of early Texas history.”—Central Texas Studies