Terry Pindell Explained

Terry Pindell (born) is an American travel writer known primarily for three North American 'rail odysseys', through the US, Canada and Mexico, each of which became the subject of a travel book. He has also written a book on migration within the United States. The Toledo Blade said of his first book, Making Tracks: "Not since John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley has anyone put together a better story about America on the road."^[1]

A New Hampshire resident, Pindell is a former English teacher and mayoral candidate in Keene, NH. He is the grandson of a railroad engineer.^[2]

Works

• A Good Place to Live: America's Last Migration by Terry Pindell (1997)
• Yesterday's Train: A Rail Odyssey Through Mexican History coauthored with Lourdes Ramirez Mallis (1997)
• Last Train to Toronto: A Canadian Rail Odyssey (1992)
• Making Tracks: An American Rail Odyssey (1990)

Notes and References

1. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fA8VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DwMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6587,1010567&dq=terry+pindell+train&hl=en "Toledo Blade review of Making Tracks"
2. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-10-21-bk-4113-story.html "LATimes book review of Making Tracks"