Along Parallel Lines

A history of the railways of New South Wales

by John Gunn

Melbourne University Press, 1989, [First Edition], ISBN 0522843875, black and white photographic plates, illustrated endpapers (maps), hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing, bumping and chopping to edges and corners, no inscriptions (see photographs)

“The social revolution of the early railroad – that shrank distance and relaced the animal power of the bullock wagon with an energy source never before available – emerged contemporaneously with European settlement of the vast Australian continent.  Both were to develop together, throughout the nineteenth century and beyond, along parallel lines.
John Gunn has combined two stories that are rich in their variety and significance.  The result is a sparkling history of the railways of New South Wales – from their beginnings in 1850 – and of their impact on people and places.”