The Railway Navvies

A History of the Men who Made the Railways

Terry Coleman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2015
Head of Zeus (Verlag)
978-1-78408-232-1 (ISBN)

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Pick, shovel, dynamite: the classic account of the men who built the railways.

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.

Terry Coleman is a historian, novelist, and award-winning reporter. His books include biographies of Olivier, Nelson and the history of British and Irish emigration, PASSAGE TO AMERICA. His novel SOUTHERN CROSS, was a worldwide bestseller.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.5.2015
Zusatzinfo	50 b&w illus
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-78408-232-5 / 1784082325
ISBN-13	978-1-78408-232-1 / 9781784082321
Zustand	Neuware