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  • Lake Shore Electric Railway

    by Thomas J. Patton ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    The Lake Shore Electric Railway commenced operation in 1893 on the north coast of Ohio, providing transportation to Cleveland, Lorain, Sandusky, Toledo, and on to Detroit, Michigan. The Lake Shore Electric Railway connected with many other electric railroads to offer a comprehensive quilt of transportation. This allowed increased commerce, ease of transportation, and access for the industrial-era ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Buddha's Wizards

    Magic, Protection, and Healing in Burmese Buddhism

    by Thomas Nathan Patton ...
    Wizards with magical powers to heal the sick, possess the bodies of their followers, and defend their tradition against outside threats are far from the typical picture of Buddhism. Yet belief in wizard-saints who protect their devotees and intervene in the world is widespread among Burmese Buddhists. The Buddha’s Wizards is a historically informed ethnographic study that explores the supernatural ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • The Buddha's Wizards

    Magic, Protection, and Healing in Burmese Buddhism

    by Thomas Nathan Patton ...
    Wizards with magical powers to heal the sick, possess the bodies of their followers, and defend their tradition against outside threats are far from the typical picture of Buddhism. Yet belief in wizard-saints who protect their devotees and intervene in the world is widespread among Burmese Buddhists. The Buddha’s Wizards is a historically informed ethnographic study that explores the supernatural ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

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    The Web of Indian Life (Unabridged)

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    Narrated by Barbara Farley, Mark Moore, Amina Patton, Thomas Leleux ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 33 min

    The Web of Indian Life, written by Sister Nivedita (Irish-born Margaret E. Noble) and published in 1904, is a collection of essays that describes India at the turn of the 20th century. “What a beautiful old world it was in which I spent those months! It moved slowly, to a different rhythm from anything that one had known. It was a world in which a great thought or intense emotion was held as the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Great Western Railway of Canada

    Southern Ontario’s Pioneer Railway

    by David R.P. Guay ...
    A look back on the brief and spectacular history of Canada’s Great Western Railway.This book chronicles the genesis and all-too-brief existence of one of Canada’s greatest early railways, the Great Western Railway of Canada (1853–1882), a major precursor to the Canadian National Rail system.Today, the Great Western Railway of Canada is a little-known historic line, overlooked even by many railway ... Read more

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  • Cincinnati's Incomplete Subway

    The Complete History

    by Jacob R. Mecklenborg ...
    What of those ghostly catacombs that lie dormant below city streets? Those subway tunnels, never finished, never filled with the screeches of trains and the busy commotion of commuters. Just there. Dead. You've heard of the subway's demise. The tunnels were too narrow. The city was too broke. A grand miscalculation. Well, most of what you've heard is, sorry to say, untrue. The popular story of the ... Read more

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  • The Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918

    Tragedy on the Indiana Lakeshore

    by Richard M Lytle ...
    What really happened on the circus train in 1918? Read the story of this tragedy for the entertainment industry of the time. In the cool, pre-dawn hours on a June night in 1918, a train engineer closed his cab window as he chugged toward Hammond, Indiana. He drifted to sleep, and his train bore down on the idle Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Train. Soon after, the sleeping engineer's locomotive plowed ... Read more

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  • American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated

    by Mark Wegman ...
    The period from the 1890s to the mid-1950s is generally considered the "golden era" of passenger rail travel in America. It was a time of celebrated locomotives and luxurious passenger service, a time when rail technology saw its greatest advances and railroads became the nation's favored mode of transportation. These glory years come alive in American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated, ... Read more

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  • Southern Pacific Railroad in Eastern Texas

    by David M. Bernstein ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    The Southern Pacific Railroad and its predecessors served Texas from 1853 to 1996. Stretching from El Paso to the Louisiana border and from the Rio Grande Valley to the Red River, Southern Pacific opened up vast areas of the state to settlement by transporting people, building materials, and livestock. The railroad fueled Texas�s economy by moving oil, timber, agricultural commodities, coal, ... Read more

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  • Sacramento's Southern Pacific Shops

    by Kevin W. Hecteman ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    In 1862, the Central Pacific Railroad was founded and began building eastward from Sacramento as part of the transcontinental railroad. This required a shop capable of keeping the railroad�s equipment in running order. So in 1867, in the swamps just north of town, the Sacramento shops were born. For well more than a century, this massive complex kept the Central Pacific and its corporate successor ... Read more

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  • The Inclines of Cincinnati

    by Melissa Kramer ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    On a summer evening, the overlook at the Rookwood Pottery in Mount Adams will be visited by at least a few, as it is one of the most romantic and fascinating hilltop vantage points in Cincinnati. One hundred years ago, though, this was the place to see and be seen. The fashionable Highland House, a world-class entertainment complex, put Cincinnati on the cultural map, and the city became known as ... Read more

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  • The Chicago Great Western Railway

    by David J. Fiore Sr. ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    Track the history of the Chicago Great Western Railway through vintage images in this volume authored by David J. Fiore Sr. The Chicago Great Western Railway (CGW) was a Midwestern line that operated in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, Kansas, and Nebraska. Although this territory was served by much larger systems, the CGW was able to retain its share of passenger and freight business for 83 ... Read more

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