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| Genre/Form: | Juvenile literature Biography Juvenile literature |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Murphy, Jim, 1947- Across America on an emigrant train. New York : Clarion Books, c1993 (OCoLC)623545669 |
| Named Person: | Robert Louis Stevenson; Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Material Type: | Biography, Juvenile audience |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jim Murphy |
| ISBN: | 0395633907 9780395633908 0756991447 9780756991449 0395764831 9780395764831 |
| OCLC Number: | 27066884 |
| Description: | 150 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Journey begins -- All aboard! -- Aboard the emigrant train -- Into the Wild West -- Across the high Sierras -- In the good country -- Final word. |
| Responsibility: | by Jim Murphy ; illustrated with photographs and prints. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-century America.
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