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Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Cros...

Les Standiford

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Aug 03, 2007 Kay rated it really liked it

Shelves: engineers_and_inventors, american-histry, nonfiction, gilded-age, social-history

Thoroughly enjoyable account of mogul Henry Flagler's efforts to build a railway all the way down through the Florida Keys, a heroic effort nearly on a par with building the Panama Canal and other feats of notable civic engineering. Flagler was John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil partner, so of course he had huge resources at his disposal. But what becomes evident early on is that Flagler was a visionary, and he had a very clear vision of what he wanted Florida to become. (Florida, for some reaso ...more

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Dec 07, 2010 Mary rated it really liked it

True account of the building of the Key West railroad, considered the 8th wonder of the world. The railroad was destroyed by a hurricane in 1935. This is a fast paced adventure tale which holds the reader from page one. A lively account of an extraordinary construction story. Wonderful!

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