The Asian Dream; The Pacific Rim and Canada's National Railway

[0-88894-501-9] 1986. (4to) Very good plus in near fine dust jacket. 223pp. Map endpapers, photographs, illustrations. There is a previous owner's bookstamp inside and the first few pages are lightly soiled. "For hundreds of years the vision of a western sea route to the riches of the Orient haunted European adventurers. By the 1840s, thwarted by the Arctic in their efforts to find a Northwest Passage, merchant-explorers turned instead to an overland route, and the great age of railway building in North America began". Book about Donald Gordon, Charles Melville Hays, William MacKenzie, Pacific Rim, Henry Thornton, Edward Watkin. Time Period 19th Century & World War II. (Transportation, Canadian National Railway, Railways, Transportation).