Freight Weather : The Art of Stalking Trains
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (504 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0966104293 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 120 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
BigRailFan said Great photos, great writing, great trains. Freight Weather is the complete railroad book. You can enjoy it simply for the beautiful photos, or for the great writing, or for the details about trains. This is one of the few books that combines all three -- words, photos and info. I have looked at a lot of railroad books and I highly recommend this one. Well worth owning.. "outstanding work" according to A Customer. I now have all three of this author's books and this one is by far the finest of the trio. The photography is breathtaking and the anecdotes are quite interesting. I would highly recommend the book to anyone who likes trains or even anyone who just appreciates some of the fine scenery this country has to offer.
From the Author Three years after my last book was published, "Freight Weather" arrives and, I believe, is by far my best work. . It is also my most personal book to date, weaving in tales of traveling on the boundless, magical steel rails of a continent. Through several essays and narratives, along with 126 color photographs, the book charts a unique geographic and spiritual journey through a scenic and startling American landscape of moving trains, rural junctions, and abandoned branchlines
With FREIGHT WEATHER: THE ART OF STALKING TRAINS, photojournalist D. In five chapters, Burkhardt offers a photographic tour that begins in the Columbia River Gorge and stretches to the Upper Midwest, the West Coast, and Western Canada. He ends the book -- and finishes a series of narratives and essays about railroad wanderings -- in tiny Lind, Washington.. C. Here, he offers a more literary and soulful vision of the essence of his attachment to the tracks and trains that reach across the land, completing the chain with writing and photography that celebrates trains as the ultimate form of overland travel. Over a seven-year span, Burkhardt's focus has shifted from primarily detailing the history and business operations of selected rail lines. "Freight Weather," Burkhardt's third book, concludes an unanticipated trilogy that began with "Backwoods Railroads" in 1994, accelerated into fresh terrain with "Rolling Dreams" in 1997, and culminates with this volume. Jesse Burkhardt crosses into a new dimension in a continuing exploration of the "heart and soul" of North America's railroads
D. C. During the past decade and more, he has roamed the North American continent with a manual Pentax K-1000 camera, seeking to capture and thereby preserve some of the fading images of America's railroad legacy. . Jesse Burkhardt is the founder of Rolling Dreams Press