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Transportation

History
Neal Ferguson

Italian Ways

Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo The English-speaking world’s fascination—perhaps obsession—with Italy is at least 500 years old. A vast

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Skeletons on the Zahara
History
Ann Ronald

Skeletons on the Zahara

Commerce, a 220-ton brig, set sail from Connecticut in 1815. Captained by James Riley, and manned by two experienced mates, four able seamen, four ordinary

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Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Sunny Solomon

Railsea

China Miéville is a national treasure. I only wish he were our national treasure. Let’s adopt him! Mind you, this is coming from a reader

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History
Sunny Solomon

Key System Streetcars

Vernon J. Sappers, born in 1917, was a prolific collector of all things relating to the Key System, the beloved San Francisco Bay Area mode

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