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• Commended for IndieFab awards (History) 2008

Overview

Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914 is a cultural and engineering history of railway building in Japan during the later part of the Meiji era. The 19th century was the first modern age of sustained, comprehensive contact between Asia and the West. This book describes the history of Japanese social adaptation to railway development, with many details never before published in English. In addition, Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914 details the often overlooked American efforts to build the first railways in Japan.This richly illustrated account also takes a look at long disused corporate logos, locomotive data and headlamp marker codes. Many of the photos and illustrations, all pulled from the authors' private collection, are quite rare and are not widely known, even in Japan. Appealing to more than just railroad fans, this fascinating account of early Japanese efforts to build railways also paints a clear picture of the Meiji era and the historical, cultural and social ramifications of the railway in Japan.

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. ..a superbly researched and written book, one that leaves no stone unturned. I can heartily recommend it if you have an interest in Japanese railways. It should serve as an example to any author wiring a railway history-this is the way it should be done. -- Losing Track .. .a superbly researched and written book, one that leaves no stone unturned. I can heartily recommend it if you have an interest in Japanese railways. It should serve as an example to any author wiring a railway history-this is the way it should be done. --Losing Track Free details japan's first six decades of railway development accompanied by rare, historic photographs, postcards, maps, and woodblock prints. Free brings to life the events and people, while providing greater context in both Japanese and world history. --Trains Magazine -...a superbly researched and written book, one that leaves no stone unturned. I can heartily recommend it if you have an interest in Japanese railways. It should serve as an example to any author wiring a railway history-this is the way it should be done.- --Losing Track -There is enough information here to satisfy the historian, but the old maps, postcards, drawings and dining car menus are a definite bonus for the more visually-oriented.- --Shelf Awareness -A rare example of a work that combines technical excellence and a plethora of information with a lively writing style that always gives the human element its due.- --SamuraiArchives.com -Free details japan's first six decades of railway development accompanied by rare, historic photographs, postcards, maps, and woodblock prints. Free brings to life the events and people, while providing greater context in both Japanese and world history. - --Trains Magazine There is enough information here to satisfy the historian, but the old maps, postcards, drawings and dining car menus are a definite bonus for the more visually-oriented. --Shelf Awareness A rare example of a work that combines technical excellence and a plethora of information with a lively writing style that always gives the human element its due. --SamuraiArchives.com a superbly researched and written book, one that leaves no stone unturned. I can heartily recommend it if you have an interest in Japanese railways. It should serve as an example to any author wiring a railway history this is the way it should be done. Losing Track

a superbly researched and written book, one that leaves no stone unturned. I can heartily recommend it if you have an interest in Japanese railways. It should serve as an example to any author wiring a railway history this is the way it s

a superbly researched and written book, one that leaves no stone unturned. I can heartily recommend it if you have an interest in Japanese railways. It should serve as an example to any author wiring a railway history this is the way it should be done. Losing Track

. ..a superbly researched and written book, one that leaves no stone unturned. I can heartily recommend it if you have an interest in Japanese railways. It should serve as an example to any author wiring a railway history-this is the way it should be done. -- Losing Track

-...a superbly researched and written book, one that leaves no stone unturned. I can heartily recommend it if you have an interest in Japanese railways. It should serve as an example to any author wiring a railway history-this is the way it should be done.- --Losing Track

.. .a superbly researched and written book, one that leaves no stone unturned. I can heartily recommend it if you have an interest in Japanese railways. It should serve as an example to any author wiring a railway history-this is the way it should be done. -- Losing Track

a superbly researched and written book, one that leaves no stone unturned. I can heartily recommend it if you have an interest in Japanese railways. It should serve as an example to any author wiring a railway history this is the way it should be done. <b><i>Losing Track</i></b>

Author Information

Dan Free is a practicing attorney living in New York City. Free has studied East Asia for years, particularly its adaptation of, and modernization through, railway technology. He has spent over 25 years assembling the collection shown for the first time in these pages.

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