Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow
Another book by Dee Brown after nineteen prior works including the famous 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee', this time exploring the early great American railroads and how they opened up the country. It is an enthralling story of ''breathtaking technological ingenuity, pioneering idealism, hard driven labour and powerful greed'. The heroes were the irish labourers and Chineses coolies with the villains being the avaricious bankers and corrupt politicians. Before the undertaking of the railway system was complete''more than 155 million acres of land had been given away to railway magnates, the Indian tribes had been massacred and the buffalo driven from the Great Plains, millions of settlers had been lured from Europe and a colossal industrial nation had been forged. This is a great piece of highly readable non-fiction.
Specifications
| Author | Brown, Dee |
| Illustrator | Multiple Illustrators |
| Publisher | Chatto and Windus |
| Place Published | London, England |
| Year Published | 1978 |
| Date of First Edition or Edition Notes |
Second Impression from 1977 |
| Size | Royal 8vo (Royal Octavo) |
| Chapters | XV |
| Pages | 311pp |
Condition Report
| Cover | Good Condition - Note: Chocolate brown cloth boards have the title in gilt on the firm square spine and a little bumping of all corners is present with the illustrated wrapper being in light yellow with brown illustrations and titles on front cover and spine too. In addition there is a very small 1cm corner wrapper tear at the top front with an untidy attempted repair from a prior owner. The dust wrapper is also now protected in removable clear archival covering - With Dust Wrapper |
| Overall | Very Good Condition - Note: Internally it is sound, unmarked and undamaged with all photo illustrations intact. The only real detractors being flecking and foxing of all three edges and minor wrapper damage as below. Devoid of any internal foxing however, it also has useful detailed railway maps as endpapers front and rear. |