Search -
The Dreadful Truth: Building the Railway (Dreadful Truth Series)
The Dreadful Truth Building the Railway - Dreadful Truth Series Author:Ted Staunton This irreverent and witty book describes the building of Canada's railway. Author Ted Staunton serves up a saucy tour through the railway fiasco beginning in the 1850s with the first attempts at running a steam engine on a short length of track. — With cartoon-style illustrations on every page, this book uncovers the scandals about government fin... more »ancing, as well as the to-ing and fro-ing about the route around the Great Lakes and the arduous labour, rotten boots and hallucinations. In place of a tedious textbook, this is history designed to entertain.« less