Rides on Railways

Samuel Sidney, with a new Introduction by Barrie S. Trinder

ISBN 10: 0850331188 / ISBN 13: 9780850331189

Published by Phillimore & Co. Ltd., London and Chichester, England, 1973

About this Item

Jacket is price clipped, there are tears and creases on it mostly along the top edge. Reprint of an edition published in 1851.

Seller Inventory # 085359

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rides on Railways
• Publisher: Phillimore & Co. Ltd., London and Chichester, England
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0850331188
• ISBN 13: 9780850331189
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: with twenty-four engravings
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair

About this title

Synopsis

Samuel Sidney (1813-1883) was a British author, journalist and editor. He studied and briefly practised law, but abandoned it and turned to journalism. His interest in agriculture led him to visit and write about many agricultural exhibitions. Due to the influence of his younger brother John, he became interested in Australia and they cowrote the Australian Hand-Book in 1848. It's success led the brothers to begin a weekly journal; Sidney's Emigrant's Journal (1848-1849) which then became a monthly, Sidney's Emigrant's Journal and Traveller's Magazine (1849-50), which was edited by Samuel. Other works include: Bristol: A Free Port (1845), Gauge Evidence: The History and Prospects of the Railway System (1846), Speed on Railways Considered in a Commercial Point of View (1847), A Voice From the Far Interior of Australia (written as A Bushman) (1847), Commercial Consequences of a Mixed Gauge on Our Railway System (1848), Railways and Agriculture in North Lincolnshire (1848), Rides on Railways (1851), The Three Colonies of Australia (1852), Gallops and Gossips in the Bush of Australia (1854) and Book of the Horse (1873).