The latest from Rolling Dreams Press ~ THE CROWBAR HOTEL is now available.
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(Last page update: July 2, 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 |
NEWS UPDATE: BURKHARDT's new project is titled "WESTBOUND TRACKS," Volume 1 & Volume 2; hardbound books of mostly color photos and narrative about railroads in the Upper Midwest, the Columbia River Gorge, and Oregon's Willamette Valley. There's one minor catch: trying to raise funds to launch the two-volume work. To that end, Burkhardt has now gone live on KICKSTARTER (http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/rollingdreams) with details about the book. Please go to KICKSTARTER.com, then plug in "Westbound Tracks" in the search window ... and the project information and the financial objective will come up. Any support is appreciated, or please just help spread the word.
DCJB's next signing event: He will be signing copies of his books at the Beaverton, Oregon, West End Model Train Annual Swap Meet on Saturday, August 28, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. The meet is at Valley Catholic High School, 4275 SW 148th Ave. Please come to the event, meet Burkhardt (and get a book!) and join in celebrating America's railroads.
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An appeal from ROLLING DREAMS PRESS founder D. C. Jesse Burkhardt:
ROLLING DREAMS PRESS is now in the process of raising fund s for a new, all-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 our supporters, to produce high quality books. Please contribute if you can; either through the newest approach, KICKSTARTER; with the PayPal button below; or by sending 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 8.5" x 11" book, 176 pages in its projected design, is tentatively titled "Westbound Tracks."
We have decided to turn this project into two geographically focused volumes ~ Volume 1 will feature the Upper Midwest; Volume 2 will primarily spotlight the Willamette Valley of Oregon and the Columbia River Gorge of Washington and Oregon, but there will be other West Coast shots blended in as well. And some British Columbia, too.
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, July 2, 2010.
Questions? Contact ROLLING DREAMS PRESS at: rollingdreams@gorge.net
THANK YOU!
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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