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Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co, 1874. Hardcover. Good (wear to boards especially to edges where cloth is worn through. age toning to pages, previous owner name on ffep, light stains to title page and small tear. Pages are otherwise clear.). Brown cloth boards with black design, gilt illustration of a train and lettering, bw frontispiece, 2 preliminary leaves, [9]-258 pages, illustrated title page and several bw illustrations throughout. Contents include: The world on wheels: The "wheel" instinct -- The Concord coach -- The raging canal -- The iron age -- The iron horse -- Plunging into the wilderness -- Vicious animals -- Habits of engines and train-men -- In the saddle -- Racing and plowing -- Snow bound -- Scalded to death -- All aboard! -- Early and late -- Dead heads -- Working "by the day" -- A slanderer and a weather maker -- Dreaming on the cars -- "Meet me by moonlight" -- The maker of cities -- A caboose ride -- Hatching out a woman -- A flank movement -- Light and shade -- Precious cargoes --…
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The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) is an Australian not-for-profit founded in 2011 that works to address the educational disadvantages faced by Indigenous Australian children and young people by providing access to books and literacy programs.
