Download or read book Slow Train to Switzerland written by Diccon Bewes and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A travel diary from 1863 inspires author Diccon Bewes to retrace Thomas Cook's historic train trip that revolutionized tourism forever.
Download or read book Fast Train Slow Train Thomas Friends written by Rev. W. Awdry and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest Bright and Early Board Book featuring Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends, this sturdy book features a simple train adventure about opposites to share with boys and girls ages 0 to 3.
Download or read book On The Slow Train written by Michael Williams and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A trip back in time' DAILY TELEGRAPH A love of railways, a love of history, a love of nostalgia. ______________________________ Get ready to board the slow train to another era, to a time when travel meant more than hurrying from one place to the next. On the Slow Train will reconnect you with that long-missed need for escape, and reminds us to lift our heads from the daily grind and remember that there are still places in Britain where we can take the time to stop and stare. This book is a paean to another age: before milk churns, train porters and cats on seats were replaced by security announcements and Burger King wrappers. These 12 spectacular journeys will help free us from what Baudelaire denounced as 'the horrible burden of time.' ___________________________________ 'Captivating' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'Deep in our soul, the railways represent an idyll that we love' INDEPENDENT 'A magical world, barely changed since the golden age of rail' DAILY MAIL 'Superb' RAILYWAY MAGAZINE 'Memory lane . . . An intriguing social snapshot' HERITAGE RAILWAY
Download or read book Slow Train to Arcturus written by Eric Flint and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make Tracks to the Stars! 0 Ye civilized of Earth: send forth your outcasts, your primitive throwbacks, your religious fundamentalists, your sexual separatists¾and heck, you can even toss in your totalitarian crackpots in the bargain. Pack them all in sealed habitats, rocket them into space, and pronounce good riddance to those lunatics, oddballs and losers! But if you happen to be an alien explorer stranded on that ship and looking to find a way home Well then, your one chance lies in seeking out the true iconoclasts in a sea of nutcase societies¾for verily, it is only the absolutely original and terminally weird who shall inherit the stars! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). "[T]he sharpest moments in this giddy entertainment are those where [Flint and Freer] blithely skewer human mores." ¾Publisher's Weekly on Rats, Bats & Vats
Download or read book Slow Train written by Jack Benton and published by Ammfa Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the evening of Saturday, January 15th, 1977, a local commuter train is delayed at a small village station by a freak blizzard. Young nurse Jennifer Evans, keen to get back to her family, plans to walk the last couple of miles to her home in a neighbouring village. She phones her daughter to confirm that she's on her way, but she never arrives home. In the ensuing police investigation, no trace of Jennifer Evans is ever found. The only evidence is a photograph taken by a fellow passenger of footprints in the snow in front of Holdergate station. It appears someone was fleeing for their life.... Contacted by Jennifer's daughter, at first it seems private investigator John "Slim" Hardy has no chance of solving a forty-two-year-old mystery. But as the case begins to unravel, Slim finds himself caught in the centre of a whirlwind which will send him spinning to a dramatic conclusion.
Download or read book Slow Trains Around Spain written by Tom Chesshyre and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between soaring mountains, across arid deserts, parched plains and valleys of fruit orchards and olive groves, down glittering coastlines and along viaducts towering above plunging ravines... there is no better way to see Spain than by train. Rail enthusiast Tom Chesshyre, author of Slow Trains to Venice, Ticket to Ride and Tales from the Fast Trains, hits the tracks once again to take in the country through carriage windows on a series of clattering rides beyond the popular image of “holiday Spain” (although he stops by in Benidorm and Torremolinos too). From hidden spots in Catalonia, through the plains of Aragon and across the north coast to Santiago de Compostela, Chesshyre continues his journey via Madrid, the wilds of Extremadura, dusty mining towns, the cathedrals and palaces of Valencia and Granada, and finally to Seville, Andalusia’s beguiling (and hot) capital. Encounters? Plenty. Mishaps? A lot. Happy Spanish days? All the way.
Download or read book Magic Train Ride written by Sally Crabtree and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ticket on the Magic Train takes the reader from outer space to underwater to a land of cakes.
Download or read book On the Slow Train written by Michael Williams and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never was the sadness of the end of an affair so poignantly expressed than in Flanders and Swann's elegy The Slow Train. This beautifully-packaged book will take the reader on the slow train to another era when travel meant more than hurrying from one place to the next, the journey meaning nothing but time lost in crowded carriages, condemned by broken timetables. On the Slow Train will reconnect with that long-missed need to lift our heads from the daily grind and reflect that there are still places in Britain where we can stop and stare. It will tap into many things: a love of railways, a love of history, and a love of nostalgia. This book will be a paean to another age before milk churns, porters, and cats on seats were replaced by security announcements and Burger King. These twelve spectacular journeys will help free us from what Baudelaire denounced as "the horrible burden of time."
Download or read book The Trains Now Departed written by Michael Williams and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOMETIMES you come across a lofty railway viaduct, marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape. Or a crumbling platform from some once-bustling junction buried under the buddleia. If you are lucky you might be able to follow some rusting tracks, or explore an old tunnel leading to...well, who knows where? Listen hard. Is that the wind in the undergrowth? Or the spectre of a train from a golden era of the past panting up the embankment? These are the ghosts of The Trains Now Departed. They are the railway lines, and services that ran on them that have disappeared and gone forever. Our lost legacy includes lines prematurely axed, often with a gripping and colourful tale of their own, as well as marvels of locomotive engineering sent to the scrapyard, and grand termini felled by the wrecker's ball. Then there are the lost delights of train travel, such as haute cuisine in the dining car, the grand expresses with their evocative names, and continental boat trains to romantic far-off places. The Trains Now Departed tells the stories of some of the most fascinating lost trains of Britain, vividly evoking the glories of a bygone age. In his personal odyssey around Britain Michael Williams tells the tales of the pioneers who built the tracks, the yarns of the men and women who operated them and the colourful trains that ran on them. It is a journey into the soul of our railways, summoning up a magic which, although mired in time, is fortunately not lost for ever. THIS EDITION REVISED AND UPDATED TO INCLUDE MAPS.
Download or read book Long Slow Train written by Donald Brackett and published by Backbeat Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONG SLOW TRAIN: THE SOUL MUSIC OF SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS
Download or read book Eleven Minutes Late written by Matthew Engel and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-02-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain gave railways to the world, yet its own network is the dearest (definitely) and the worst (probably) in Western Europe. Trains are deeply embedded in the national psyche and folklore - yet it is considered uncool to care about them. For Matthew Engel the railway system is the ultimate expression of Britishness. It represents all the nation's ingenuity, incompetence, nostalgia, corruption, humour, capacity for suffering and even sexual repression. To uncover its mysteries, Engel has travelled the system from Penzance to Thurso, exploring its history and talking to people from politicians to platform staff. Along the way Engel ('half-John Betjeman, half-Victor Meldrew') finds the most charmingly bizarre train in Britain, the most beautiful branch line, the rudest railwayman, and - after a quest lasting decades - an Individual Pot of Strawberry Jam. Eleven Minutes Late is both a polemic and a paean, and it is also very funny.
Download or read book Shazam 2018 7 written by Geoff Johns and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Shazam and the Seven Magic Lands” continues as the shocking new member of the Shazam family is revealed! This mystery person will send shock waves through the entire cast!
Download or read book Slow Train to Oxmox written by Kurt Cyrus and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 1998 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although he starts out in a hurry to reach his destination, Edwin Blink comes to enjoy his unusual trip on a slow train.
Download or read book The Slow Train to Milan written by Lisa St Aubin de Terán and published by . This book was released on 2024-01-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of Lisa St Aubin de Teráns second novel (first published 1983 by Jonathan Cape), winner of the John Llewllyn Rhys Memorial Prize (1983).
Download or read book On a Slow Train Through Arkansaw written by Thomas W Jackson and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Download or read book Fast Kids Don t Train Slow written by Dunte Hector and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ultimate, people like to say, "You can''t teach tall." Lots of players also believe you can''t teach speed. This book is out to dispel that myth. Speed is a skill. You CAN learn to run faster. And to run faster means more scores, more Ds, and more glory on the field. Dunte Hector of ATX Speed has coached over 100 ultimate players around the world to run faster, jump higher, and minimize common injuries since 2015. His dozens of pages of data show: players have improved their top speed by MORE than 10% players have missed fewer practices because of his warmup & rehab protocols Praise for Fast Kids Don''t Train Slow "It''s awesome to read a book that''s useful and not just a long missive about how ultimate shaped some guy''s life." - Simon "While the concepts can apply broadly, I appreciate knowing that what''s in the book is written with the ultimate athlete in mind first and foremost." - Sarah If you want to experience ATX Speed''s proven training methods -- if you want to run faster and be one of the all-star players on your team -- then buy Fast Kids Don''t Train Slow. You can become one of the fast kids. You can have the glory of blowing off your defender and being wide open for easy catches. You can earn the respect due to players who come from behind to knock down discs. You can condition with precision to arrive at your biggest tournaments in great shape AND healthy. You may have to give up traditional ideas about training for ultimate to reap the rewards. Is it really possible to become faster? How does lifting weights improve your game? Are track workouts helping you as a player? This is the first book for ultimate which answers all of those questions and more. Fast Kids Don''t Train Slow gives you all the tools you need to make a statement next season. This book lays out exactly why the fastest players on your team rarely seem to work the hardest. It explains how running fast really happens inside the body. It exposes the most common mistakes ultimate players make in their training which result in burnout, poor performance, and -- at worst -- devastating injury. And every word is backed by data, research, and the experience of athletes who have trained with Coach Dunte. What ultimate players say about training at ATX SPEED "Beach Nationals was the best I''ve ever felt and played on sand. I had many compliments on how well I played and ... on my speed and cutting." - Chris "I''m faster and have way more endurance than I ever did before. I''m keeping up with and beating people that used to smoke me. People I''ve played for a while have been impressed with how much faster I am." - Kevin "I think the long warmups and recovery work during the season are doing a lot to keep me healthy. After a recent tournament, some teammates said, ''I haven''t seen you play like that before!'' " - Kyle "Coach Dunte taught me proper sprinting form, helping me get open on my defenders and stay with my person on defense. He has also helped me understand that training for ultimate isn''t about feeling terrible after workouts, but rather focusing on correct form, doing reps at 100%, and listening to my body." - Rebecca "During tryout season all the captains and people running tryouts said I looked way quicker and more explosive than last season." - Tom Do you want the same success? Do you want teammates to be surprised by your new speed and endurance next season? Buy Fast Kids Don''t Train Slow. Follow the training programs. You''ll be glad you did. Your match-ups will wish they had beat you to it.
Download or read book Mastering the Art of Mctavishing written by Karen McTavish and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanded and completely revised, this book is the perfect companion for longarm, sit-down, or hand quilters to add a simple but beautiful background filler to their quilting repertoire. Dubbed "McTavishing" after its creator, it has become the most popular new design concept in quilting today. As shown in the extensively illustrated projects, McTavishing may be added to any quilt or garment, from wholecloth to contemporary art quilts, and done by hand, domestic machine, or longarm technique. The book's how-to chapters demonstrate the uses of the McTavishing stitch--as an addition to an open quilt block, in a border, to highlight complex applique, to custom tailor a favorite garment, or as part of a larger overall design--while the accompanying DVDs provide lessons from the author. Accompanied by interviews with accomplished hand and domestic machine quilters, this guide offers readers an unparalleled view of the exciting new quilting process. This edition boasts revised how-to chapters, new graphics, new text, and a simpler teaching method. Additional pages feature new quilts and quilters as well as a new section on modern quilting styles.
