No comments about Fertile Fortune: The Story of Tyntesfield.

No comments about The Bousfield Diaries: A Middle-Class Family in Late Victorian Bedford (Publications Bedfordshire Hist Rec Soc).

4 comments about Delaware & Hudson: The History of an Important Railroad Whose Antecedent Was a Canal Network to Transport Coal.

1. This book is wonderfully researched, chalked full of the details any railroad fan wants. The historical account of the D&H's begining as well as the discussion of the leaders of this great road are most interesting. A must read for those interested in the great railroads of the USA.



2. It's great to see this book back in print. Buy it and read it if you have any interest in canals, coal mining, or the history of one of the US's oldest railroads!



3. I consider this one my biblical reference of our country's oldest continually operating railroad, the Delaware & Hudson. Jim Shaughnessy has done an excellent job of relating his research, and the photos and maps bring it all together.



4. Delaware & Hudson describes the company that ran the first steam locomotive in this country, and operated the first integrated transportation system in 1828, when it combined the use of a railroad and canal in an audacious scheme to transport Pennsylvania coal to New York City. The D&H first used Roebling's wire cable to operate its gravity railroad, and later used the same cables to build wire suspension aqueduct bridges to carry the canal over two rivers, and did all this years before Roebling would build the Brooklyn Bridge.
   
   The book is filled with photographs, maps and engravings, with images on virtually every page. Although it is a book for railroad fans, it also works as a history of American technology and the history an American company which rode its use of technical inonovations to become one of this country's largest corporations by the middle of the nineteenth century.

No comments about Dover Castle (Ghastly Books).

2 comments about The Word of a Prince: A Life of Elizabeth I from Contemporary Documents.

1. I read this book in a History class of the Tudor-Stuart period in college. While I found the book interesting, many others did not. The book combines documents by Elizabeth herself, many rare or hard to find and of a personal nature, and secondary source comentaty. The book gives an often unheard naritive of Elizabeth I's childhood, accendancy, and reign.

   One problem that many other students found in my class was the constant personal narritives given by the author. While at times they are quite dramatic and through provoking, they are often biased and pure speculation (yet presented as fact). Some issues and events are taken someone out of context or presented in a slanted view.

   While I would definatly recomend this book to anyone wanting to know more and about Elizabeth I, I must caution the reader to question some of the evidence and speculation given in the book. The reader must constantly be on the look out for things that may be biased. This book does make an excellent read for the amature historian, but like all historical books, do not base all your knowledge on this one work.




2. I've never read this book before, But someone that has, Could u tell me why in the world it says The World of a *Prince*? Because shes a princess.

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No comments about The Secret Valley: The Real Romance of Unconquered Lakeland.

No comments about Royalty for Commoners: The Complete Known Ancestry of John of Gaunt, Son of Edward Iii, King of England, and Queen Phillippa.

1 comments about Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 1585-1685.

1. Oberg's historical review of the indians interactions with the first settles is complete and easy to understand.

No comments about Peirce Genealogy: Being the Record of the Posterity of John Pers, an Early Inhabitant of Watertown, in New England ... with Notes on the.