Age
8-13
Grade
3-8
Ted Staunton, Brian Goff
The Dreadful Truth: Building the Railway
Paperback
(Formac Nov. 1, 2005)
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 financing, 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.
- Series
- The Dreadful Truth
- ISBN
- 0887806902 / 9780887806902
- Pages
- 80
- Weight
- 4.0 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.0 x 0.2 in.
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