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Scalded to Death by Steam [Buy it!] | Lyle Katie Letcher | USD 17.21 (Fri Jun 7 19:59:48 2024) | AbebooksAU | Train World Pty Ltd | ISBN10: 0491033540, ISBN13: 9780491033541, [publisher: W H Allen, London, England] Hardcover First Edition 192 pages b/w photos - stories of the real histories behind two dozen American railroad disasters that spawned folksongs that will not themselves die, though death figures prominently in their stanzas. Having learned most of these songs by heart as a child, Lyle writes this book as a labor of love and makes it the most readable history book in print, imbuing its historical facts with the pathos and the frailty of real humans, whose all-too-human errors occasioned many of the disasters described in these pages. [North Brighton, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 1985] |