Trailblazer Rail Guides series are highly practical, informative & portable guides designed specifically for those wanting to discover a country by train. Each title in the series explores its destination with reference to seeing & experiencing countries such as Japan, Australia & Canada using their extensive rail networks. Designed with practicality in mind, each guide describes the entire railway system in clearly defined stages & regions, allowing visitors to plan their journey or journeys accordingly. Strong on both practical content & cultural & historical background, Trailblazer Rail Guides provide extensive kilometre by kilometre route guide description, exploring the country’s history, culture, food & local customs in addition to giving practical advice on accessing site of interest when travelling by train. Dedicated town & city guides are included throughout the guide, with advice for travellers on all budgets of recommended places to stay, places to eat & drink & what to see & do. Uniquely, there are also extensive railway timetables for all routes that are described in the guide, allowing travellers flexibility when embarking upon their railway trip. ...

Trailblazer’s Trekking Guide series are highly practical, informative & portable guides designed with the adventurous hiker & trekker in mind, & produced by one of the leading outdoor guide-book publishers. Each title in the series explores a range of popular trekking routes in some of the world’s most challenging terrain, encompassing areas such as the Alps, Atlas Mountains, Himalaya & New Zeal&. Designed with practicality in mind, each guide describes the entire trekking route in clearly defined stages, allowing trekkers to plan their route accordingly. Strong on both practical content & cultural & historical background, Trailblazer Guides include extensive commentary on sites along the way, including town guides & maps where relevant, in addition to cultural & social background, as trekkers hike through the landscape. in addition, there are detailed descriptions of camping & accommodation facilities & places to eat & drink en route, as well as boxed insets exploring a local tradition or custom. Detailed, large-scale trekking maps are included in each title – a unique feature of Trailblazer guides – which include important information on walking times, directions, tricky junctions, places to stay & eat & general points of interest. The guides are arranged in 4 main sections – Planning Your Trip, a country or region fact-file, Minimum Impact Trekking & Route Guides & Maps, & there are also mini village, town & city guides where appropriate. There is detailed advice & guidance on the route itself, practical information for the walker, budgeting, when to go, itineraries, what to take & getting to & from the route. in addition, informative sections on the environment, flora & fauna & walking safety seek to improve walkers’ experiences of the routes & get the most from their trip. A Minimum Impact Trekking section also informs readers of the economic, environmental & cultural impact of walking. Appendices give information on local language, health issues & a brief glossary of trekking terminology. ...

All aboard! Finally, a train book that puts the reader in the driver`s seat. In this uniquely formatted picture book, kids ages 4 & up become railroad engineers as they drive a moveable toy stream train from page to page, country to city, & day to night on a truly astonishing journey. The adventure begins on the first page, as the reader sets off a daybreak. The landscape races by as the train travels up green mountains, through the orange desert & yellow prairies, & along blue hill towns, & finally pulls into the city station as night falls. stunning illustrations & simple, rhythmic prose make this exciting cross country trip even more spectacular. ...

Train & Road to/of the Clouds in a bilingual English/ Spanish guide from Asiru Editorial providing a background to this famous route, as well as several thematic maps of the area, plus numeous colour photos of the landscape & the infrastructure. Somewhat formal in style, the guide covers various aspects of the 218km route between Salta & La Polvorilla Viaduct in northern Argentina: its history & infrastructure, also geology, vegetation, archaeology, etc, of the surrounding region. The guide also provides an extensive glossary of terms used in it, plus a bibliography for further reading in Spanish. The 71-page guide section is followed by several fold-out pages providing a wide-ranging selection of thematic maps: the route of the line indicating bridges, viaducts, switchbacks & tunnels; aerial photos of various sections to provide a picture of the topography; satellite image of the region; geology & hydrology; vegetation & climate, etc. The guide is illustrated with numerous colour photos of the landscape & various parts of the route ...

Robert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century
- an ordinary man in extraordinary
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” This is the night mail crossing the border, Bringing the cheque & the postal order...” (W.H. Auden). Wordsworth was the first laureate of locomotives: in fact he railed against them, & against the consequent opening up of the Lakes to holiday hordes (` On the Projected Kendal & Windermere Railway`). His dismay was echoed down the decades by disturbed ruralists, & yet the train has become part of our psychic landscape: some of the best-loved English poems
- Edward Thomas` ` Adlestrop`, or Philip Larkin`s ` Whitsun Weddings`
- have celebrated carriages, platforms & waiting rooms, while locomotion has inspired some of the most characteristic poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti & Stevenson, Hardy & Mac Neice, Betjeman & Auden (whose ` Night Mail` was written to accompany a 1930s GPO documentary about the postal express from Euston to Glasgow). Co-edited by two of our most distinguished poets, Train Songs offers a round tour
- from Wordsworth to Hugo Williams & beyond
- starting from the poetry of departures & brief encounters, but taking in the American Blues, the troop trains of two world wars, & the addiction to speed which characterised the European revolutions. Trains have carried the freight of history from the Industrial Revolution onwards
- the Armstice in 1918 was signed in a railway carriage, the death camps were organised around train timetables
- & this new anthology shows how the train in all its forms has exercised a unique hold upon our collective unconscious.





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Train to Nowhere is a war memoir seen through the sardonic eyes of Anita Leslie, a funny & vivacious young woman who reports on her experiences with a dry humour, finding the absurd alongside the tragic. Daughter of a Baronet & first cousin once removed of Winston Churchill, she joined the Mechanized Transport Corps as a fully trained mechanic & ambulance driver during WWII, serving in Libya, Syria, Palestine, Italy, France & Germany. Ahead of her time, Anita bemoans `first-rate women subordinate to second-rate men, ` &, as the British Army forbade women from serving at the front, joined the Free French Forces in order to do what she felt was her duty. Writing letters in Hitler`s recently vacated office & marching in the Victory parade contrast with observations of seeing friends murdered & a mother avenging her son by coldly shooting a prisoner of war. Unflinching & unsentimental, Train to Nowhere is a memoir of Anita`s war, one that, long after it was written, remains poignant & relevant. ...

It is 1977 & seventeen-year-old Mona Manoliu has fallen in love with Mihai, a mysterious boy who lives in the romantic mountain city where she spends her summers. She can think of nothing & no one else. But life under Ceausescu`s Romania is difficult. Hunger, paranoia & fear infect everyone. One day Mona sees Mihai wearing the black leather jacket favoured by the secret police. Is it possible he is one of them? As food shortages worsen & more of her loved ones disappear, Mona comes to understand that she must leave Romania. She escapes in secret
- narrowly avoiding the police
- through Yugoslavia to Italy, & finally to Chicago. But she leaves without saying a final goodbye to Mihai. & though she struggles to bury her longing for the past, many years later she finds herself compelled to return, determined to learn the truth.

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Train to/of the Clouds at 1:715, 000 approx. in a series of maps of popular sightseeing routes in the northern provinces of Argentina from Asiru Editorial, presenting the region on one side with altitude colouring & on the reverse as a satellite image to provide a very clear impression of the topography. The map covers the famous Train to/of the Clouds route from Salta to the La Polvorilla Viaduct & shows locations of bridges, viaducts, switchbacks & tunnels. Local road network is included. Maps in Asiru series have on one side of a map with altitude colouring & plenty of spot heights & names of various mountain ranges, valleys, rivers & lakes, salt flats, nature reserves, etc. Locations along the highlighted route & selected other places are annotated with their altitude above the sea level. The map shows local road & rail networks, distinguishing between paved & unpaved roads, showing driving distances, & marking locations of fuel supplies. A separate diagram of the road network shows main towns & villages annotated with facilities & services provided in them. The maps have latitude & longitude margin ticks. On the reverse the same area is shown as a satellite image to provide an alternative view of the region ...

In only a few short years, power meters have become an essential training tool for amateur & pro cyclists & triathletes. The first edition of ” Training & Racing with a Power Meter” was largely responsible for popularizing what was once an arcane technology understood by only a few elite coaches & trainers. Now this updated second edition provides significant updates on technology, software tools, training protocols, & workouts, making the benefits of power-based training available to everyone. The new edition provides specific information for triathletes including a complete triathlon training plan. Other significant updates include reviews of the latest hardware, refinements & additions to training plans, additional case studies, more on monitoring fitness & chronic training loads, & new power graphics, charts & tables throughout. ” Training & Racing with a Power Meter” will continue to be the definitive guide to the most important training tool ever developed for endurance sports. ...