The Railway Navvies: A History of the Men who Made the Railways - Hardcover

Coleman, Terry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1784082325 ISBN 13: 9781784082321

Verlag: Head of Zeus, 2015

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Críticas:

'Absorbing detail presented so readably that no one with a spark of imagination and a twinge of interest in people could fail to find this book a pleasure' Evening Standard.

'A brilliant book about a magnificent and vanished race of men' Listerner.

'Coleman's vivid and perceptive study of Victorian railway navvies is something of a landmark' Guardian.

'Coleman's pioneering work of industrial history is handsomely illustrated with prints and photographs from the time with a new introduction from the most distinguished recent historian of the railways' The National (Glasgow).

Reseña del editor:

This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways – the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England.

Preached at and plundered, sworn at and swindled, this anarchic elite endured perils and disasters, and carved out of the English countryside an industrial-age architecture unparalleled in grandeur and audacity since the building of the cathedrals.

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• Verlag: Head of Zeus
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1784082325
• ISBN 13: 9781784082321
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320