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        The Great Persuader

        The Biography of Collis P. Huntington

        by David Lavender

        ollis Huntington Holladay of San Marino, California, made available documents and letters written by his great uncle. They are cited in the Notes as 'Holladay Collection'. The letters sent by Collis Huntington to his brother Solon during the gold-rush period and the subsequent years in Sacramento, form a significant part of the Holladay collection and were particularly valuable in allowing a reconstruction of a hitherto little known period of Collis' life. This book includes lavish and fascinating detail, emphasising in particular the complex, often illegal, financial and political wirepulling that generally won the day for Huntington.

      • Railway transport industries
        March 2013

        Changing Trains

        by Paul Haywood

        "Changing Trains - a Global Review" by Paul Haywood. Railways are always changing and "Changing Trains" gives a truly "Global Review". The author has always tried to use rail as his preferred mode of travel for work and leisure whenever possible and these are scenes taken by him before, during or after a scheduled train journey over a forty-year period from 1973. This all-colour pictorial features more than two hundred photographs of trains and railways in no fewer than forty-three countries presented alphabetically - from Australia to the USA by way of such diverse countries as Burma, Croatia, Mexico and Taiwan. Each photograph in this 104-page book has an interesting and informative caption which will appeal not only to hardened rail enthusiasts but also to those who simply like travelling by train and wish to know more about railways beyond their own shores.

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