books: american passenger

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American passenger

Names of Irish Passengers to America

Michael C. O'Laughlin

Irish Genealogical Foundation, 2002

Names of Irish Passengers to America
Was not the years I was looking for. The de scription did not specify the years covered of immigration.

Refuge Denied: The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust
Sarah A. Ogilvie, Scott Miller

University of Wisconsin Press, 2006

In May of 1939 the Cuban government turned away the Hamburg-America Line?s MS St. Louis, which carried more than 900 hopeful Jewish refugees escaping Nazi Germany. The passengers subsequently sought safe haven in the United States, but were rejected once again, and the St. Louis had to embark on an uncertain return voyage to Europe. Finally, the ...

American Passenger Train

Mike Schafer

MBI, 2001

another hit by Mike Schafer
Another good book about Mike Schafer, very comprehensive but in my opinion a bit unsatisfactory about interurban trains that played a key role in moving people around for over 40 years in the whole America

English Passengers: A Novel

Matthew Kneale

Nan A. Talese, 2000

Very Good Book
This is one of the best and wittiest books I have read, dealing with "benign" colonialism. The British, in the name of "saving the natives" managed to eradicate the whole population of Tasmania. True comedy always has the element of the tragic in it as this book ...

American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated (Great Passenger Trains)

Mark Wegman

Voyageur Press, 2008

You'll look at this gem over and over.
On an impulse when old-time (pre-Amtrak) railroads popped into my mind, I purchased this book. It has quickly become one of my all-time favorite impulse purchases. Beautifully illustrated with full-color side-views of several dozen classic American passenger trains, ...

Immigration at the Golden Gate: Passenger Ships, Exclusion, and Angel Island

Robert Eric Barde

Praeger Publishers, 2008

A Multi-faceted Look at a Complex Historical Situation
Barde looks at Asian immigration at San francisco Bay from several different perspectives: the immigrant experience getting there and ashore, the Chinese community, here and in China, the steamships and the shipping companies, the ships themselves, and the immigration ...

Picture History of the Normandie: With 190 Illustrations

Frank O. Braynard

Dover Publications, 1987

I can't get enough of this 'Ship of Light'...
I'm a big fan of the famous, luxurious old transatlantic liners. The Normandie is perhaps my favorite, as the most beautiful and gracious of the pre-WWII ladies of the sea. The fact that the Normandie was tragically and negligently destroyed well before she'd passed ...

The Butterfield Overland Mail: Only Through Passenger on the First Westbound Stage (Huntington Library ...

Waterman L. Ormsby

Huntington Library Press, 2007

Very interesting reports
Very interesting reports about the short lived butterfield overland route, recommended reading.

Among the Heroes: United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back

Jere Longman

Harper Paperbacks, 2003

Extremely moving testimony
I've read hundreds of books over the past few years, but none like "Among the Heroes: United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back." This, to say the least, is an incredibly phenomenal book which touches the deepest parts of the heart, mind and soul. ...

When the Dancing Stopped: The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and Its Deadly Wake

Brian Hicks

Free Press, 2006

Newly declassified files help to shed light on a 70 year old mystery
Every so often I come across a book that grabs my attention in the opening pages and keeps me fixated right until the very end. "When The Dancing Stopped" is just such a book. Author Brian Hicks relates the incredible tale of the cruise ship Morro Castle and ...

The King's Passengers to Maryland and Virginia
Peter Wilson Coldham

Heritage Books, 2006

Louisville and Nashville Passenger Trains: The Pan American Era 1921-1971

Charles B. Castner, Robert E. Chapman, ...

Motorbooks International, 2000

A Fine Reference Work
I was excited when I saw the advanced advertisements for this book and looked forward to its publication. I was not let down. The authors know their stuff and have put together a fine reference work on the 20th Century passenger service of "The Old Reliable". This is ...

Irish Passenger Lists, 1847-1871. Lists of Passengers Sailing from Londonderry to America on Ships of the J. ...

Genealogical Pub Co, 2001

These passenger lists, which cover the period of the Irish Famine and its aftermath, identify the emigrants' actual places of residence, as well as their port of departure and nationality. Essentially business records, the lists were developed from the order books of the two main passenger lines operating out of Londonderry--J. & J. Cooke ...

Flying Blind: How Political Correctness Continues to Compromise Airline Safety Post 9/11

Michael Smerconish

Running Press, 2004

An eyebrow raiser!
This is quite a book, describing the effect of political correctness on our national security. Almost unbelievable! Fact: In early 1942, then-Governor of California, Earl Warren, who eventually became Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, with the ...

The American Railroad Passenger Car, Parts I and II (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)

John H., Jr. White

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985

settting a standard for railroad history writing
These books are unusual in their focus on the history of technology, explaining how it works, and how it changed over time. It gives a comprehensive account of the development of these cars with many fine pictures.