The latest from Rolling Dreams Press ~ THE CROWBAR HOTEL is now available.
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(Last page update: February 1, 2010)
He's back! D. C. Jesse Burkhardt, the hard-riding, boxcar-tempered loner who introduced a new genre of travel-adventure with his smashing Travelogue From an Unruly Youth (winner of the Washington Press Association award in the `best books/non-fiction' category for 2008) ~ returns to blaze a trail across Canada in a two-fisted sequel, The Crowbar Hotel (ISBN: 0-9661042-2-6). The Crowbar Hotel was released on July 11, 2009.
Burkhardt writes in the introduction to the book that The Crowbar Hotel is “a unique travel-adventure that details an unusual expedition through Canada in 1979, as well as a glimpse into the hidden world of transportation via freight trains. The Crowbar Hotel explores what it means to aim yourself toward a chosen horizon and vowing to get there, despite obstacles and hardships — and despite encounters with police who threatened us with deportation ... Crowbar is a wild guidebook to a time when we traveled without paying attention to signs or maps or rules. We moved on instinct and faith. Freighting through Canada was truly another world, and it was a world of mystery and magic.” Reserve your signed copy at: rollingdreams@gorge.net. The 208-page book retails for $15. Order it today at fine bookstores everywhere, or via the Internet through Karen's Books or Amazon.com ... and please keep the international orders coming! "Burkhardt's The Crowbar Hotel is an On the Road adventure from a traveler who knows the craft of writing as well as the art of travel." ~ William L. Sullivan, author of Listening for Coyote |
An appeal from ROLLING DREAMS PRESS founder D. C. Jesse Burkhardt:
ROLLING DREAMS PRESS seeks to raise approximately $6,000-$8,000 to help fund a new, full-color, coffeetable book of photographs of railroads in three regions of the country: the Columbia River Gorge, the Willamette Valley of Oregon, and the Upper Midwest ~ Wisconsin and my home state of Michigan in particular. As we are a small, independent press, we must rely on our own resources (and resourcefulness) and by extension our supporters, to produce high quality books. Please contribute if you can; either with the PayPal button below, or send checks directly to: Burkhardt/Rolling Dreams Press, P.O. Box 1054, White Salmon, Wash., 98672.
With your support, we are hopeful of getting a new book of railroad photography/essays out in 2010. The 9" x 12" book, 176 pages in its projected design, is tentatively titled "Westbound Tracks."
We are also considering turning this project into three shorter, more geographically focused (and less expensive) volumes rather than one longer one ~ Volume 1 would feature the Upper Midwest, Volume 2 would be the Willamette Valley, and finally Volume 3 would spotlight the Columbia River Gorge. Please feel free to send comments on the two alternative concepts, for or against.
One other note: I am a strong believer in MADE IN THE U.S.A. Any new book I produce I want to have designed, printed, and bound in the United States by American workers. I'm proud to say that my last two travel-adventures were printed in Ann Arbor, Michigan ("Travelogue"), and Hood River, Oregon ("Crowbar"). Earlier books were printed in Pullman, Washington ("Backwoods") and Portland, Oregon ("Rolling Dreams"). I'll do all I can with the resources I have to keep American workers employed. ~ D. C. Jesse Burkhardt, February 1, 2010.
Questions? Contact ROLLING DREAMS PRESS at: rollingdreams@gorge.net
THANK YOU.
NEXT BOOK SIGNING EVENT: Portland Marine Expo Center ~
10 a.m.-4 p.m., March 20-21, 2010; Portland, Oregon
Books by D. C. Jesse Burkhardt
Welcome to ROLLING DREAMS PRESS -- and Northwest photojournalist D. C. Jesse Burkhardt's visual tour of North America's railroads. ROLLING DREAMS PRESS is a visual and written celebration of life, travel under the stars, and the magic of tracks and trains headed to the distance ...
Burkhardt's books are dedicated to the spirit of boxcars rolling through the star-filled night ... The sweet scent of woodchips and creosote pulled along in the wake of a passing train ... the sound of a distant locomotive's air horn reaching across the open land ... Sunlight shining off the sides of swaying freight cars ... the distant, emerald twinkle of a signal light miles away through the darkness.
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