Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (531 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1400049474 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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A bigger piece of Florida history than I expected M. Strong Having made the drive from Miami to Key West a couple of times, I've been curious about the abandoned bridges that you see all the way down the Keys. When someone recommended this book to me I was excited to learn how those bridges got there - which I did - but I learned a lot more too.Henry Flagler, who made h. A true ripping good yarn of trains, palm trees and robber baron grit and determination. Jeff I have given this book to many people to spread a greater understanding of how South Florida came to exist, and grow to what is is today. It is non-fiction that reads like a novel. Hurricanes, Ernest Hemingway, Henry Flagler, swamps, Big Oil, real estate developers, and a touch of madness. Who could ask for any. "Great history lesson." according to Deb. It was recommended to me by a friend from Key West. She was fascinated and I have to say that I was also. We have a vacation home in Key West. I would have loved to travel on the Overseas Railroad. The Overseas Highway is just not as romantic a notion.
Last Train to Paradisecelebrates a crowning achievement of Gilded Age ambition in a sweeping tale of the powerful forces of human ingenuity colliding with the even greater forces of nature’s wrath.. Last Train to Paradise is acclaimed novelist Les Standiford’s fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the Labor Day hurricane of 1935. Brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler’s dream fulfilled, the Key West Railroad stood as a magnificent achievement for more than twenty-two years, heralded as “the Eighth Wonder of the World.&rd
Henry Morrison Flagler, John D. In Last Train to Paradise novelist Les Standiford has written a lively, felicitous account of the building of the Florida East Coast Railway, which, for a little over two decades, connected mainland Florida with Key West. The railroad, which crossed more than 150 miles of open sea, was an engineering feat nearly equal in scale and difficulty to the digging of the Panama Canal. O'Billovich. --H. Rockefeller's Standard Oil partner and, in many eyes, the true genius behind that company, embarked on t