The Last Passenger Train: A Rail Journey Across Canada - Softcover

Goldstein, Robert M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976328852 ISBN 13: 9780976328858

Verlag: Rivendell Publishing Northwest, 2020

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Join author Robert Goldstein and his wife, Melinda Denson, on a seemingly idyllic trip to celebrate his retirement by traversing Canada on the remnants of its once robust transcontinental train service. More than a routine travelogue, the author describes what happens when two individuals marry late in life, then spend a week crammed in a train compartment. Goldstein is determined to cure his inner restlessness and obsession with being on time, even inventing a new philosophy - Zen Train Mind - to keep on track. Denson constantly reminds her new husband that the trip is about relaxation, defeating anxiety and being in the moment. Initial success is met with retrenchment as The Canadian falls hours behind schedule. The author's penchant for checking timetables, composing letters to railroad officials and politicians, and concocting crazy schemes to encourage speed transforms the trip into a comedy of confinement. When not worrying about the train's pace, the author provides rich descriptions of the land the train passes through, as well as of the Herculean effort required to build Canada's cross-country railroad.

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Robert M Goldstein was born in Los Angeles, but grew up in Santa Clara, California, where his first train adventures began no doubt with a wooden toy train his grandmother gave him. After graduating from Oregon State University in 1977 with a bachelor s degree in Technical Journalism, he worked as a newspaper reporter for the Walla Walla Union Bulletin and the Bellevue Journal-American. In the late 1980s, his career took a different direction after he earned his master s degree in Public Administration from the University of Washington. Since that time, he has held a variety of administrative post in California and Washington. He retired as Chief Financial Officer of the Kitsap Regional Library System in 2017. He has traveled extensively and has published travel articles on Nepal, Bhutan, the Arctic and China. His critically acclaimed first book, The Gentleman from Finland Adventures on the Trans-Siberian Express earned Goldstein the Benjamin Franklin Award for best travel book published by an independent publisher in North America in 2005. His second book, Riding with Reindeer, A Bicycle Odyssey through Finland, Lapland and Arctic Norway, received the INDIE Book Award Silver Medal. Goldstein and his wife, Melinda, live in Seattle.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Rivendell Publishing Northwest
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0976328852
• ISBN 13: 9780976328858
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 142
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