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The Railway Navvies: A History of the Men who Made the Railways
Terry Coleman
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Description for The Railway Navvies: A History of the Men who Made the Railways
Paperback. Pick, shovel, dynamite: the classic account of the men who built the railways. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBTK; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784977344
SKU
V9781784977344
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99-50
About Terry Coleman
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.
Reviews for The Railway Navvies: A History of the Men who Made the Railways
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more