Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 (Revised)

Contributor(s): Ambrose, Stephen E (Author)

ISBN: 9780743203173

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Binding Types:

Paperback

$20.99

Digicover (1-4 copies)

$33.94 (Final Price)

Readerbound (5-99 copies)

$32.74 (100+ copies: $31.99)

List/retail price:

$20.99

Pub Date: November 6, 2001

Dewey: 385.0973

LCCN: 00041005

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index, Maps, Price on Product, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.09" H x 9.25" L x 6.22" W ( 1.08 lbs) 432 pages

BISAC Categories:

Series: Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1865-69

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000054436 ( Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 (Revised))

Reading level: 8.50

Interest level: UG

Point value: 28.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: From the author of "D-Day" and many other works of history, comes a detailed history of the men who built the transcontinental railroad that opened up the west of America. photos.

Brief description: Stephen E. Ambrose was a renowned historian and acclaimed author of more than thirty books. Among his New York Times bestsellers are Nothing Like It in the World, Citizen Soldiers, Band of Brothers, D-Day - June 6, 1944, and Undaunted Courage. Dr. Ambrose was a retired Boyd Professor of History at the University of New Orleans and a contributing editor for the Quarterly Journal of Military History.

Review Quotes: Richly readable...[Stephen Ambrose] bears the reader on shoulders of wonder and excitement.--Henry Kisor "The New York Times Book Review"

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