Richard Westwood: 3 books
The Hixon Railway Disaster
The Inside Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This is the shocking true story behind the botched introduction of Automatic Half-Barrier level-crossings into Britain.
January 1968 saw the convening of the first Parliamentary Court of Inquiry into a railway accident in Britain since the Tay Bridge Disaster nearly a century before. Why was...
Woman Of The River
Georgie White Clark, Whitewater Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Georgie White Clark-adventurer, raconteur, eccentric--first came to know the canyons of the Colorado River by swimming portions of them with a single companion. She subsequently hiked and rafted portions of the canyons, increasingly sharing her love of the Colorado River with friends and acquaintances....
Rough-Water Man
Elwyn Blake'S Colorado River Expeditions
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The passage of the 1902 Reclamation Act created a mandate for the federal government to build dams on the Colorado River and its powerful tributaries. By 1920 the US Geological Survey had surveyed the river’s main courses, but still needed accurate charts of the last stretches of deep canyons and...