6.6 /10 1 Votes
3.3/5 AbeBooks Publication date October, 2001 Originally published October 2001 ISBN 9780670884735 Subject Rail transport | 3.4/5 Goodreads Country Canada Pages 304 pp. Publisher Penguin Books Genres Non-fiction, Memoir | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback) Similar Tom Allen books, Memoirs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rolling Home: A Cross Canada Railroad Memoir is a non-fiction memoir, written by Canadian writer Tom Allen, first published in October 2001 by Penguin Books. In the book, the author chronicles his travels across Canada on a train. Allen includes his interviews with passengers, engineers, cooks, and porters. Rolling Home has been called an "evocative cross-country tour of Canada by train," by Staebler award administrator Kathryn Wardropper.
Awards and honours
Rolling Home received the 2002 "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction".
References
Rolling Home: A Cross Canada Railroad Memoir Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA