Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman

Full Steam Ahead

How the Railways Made Britain

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Age of Railways was an era of extraordinary change which utterly transformed every aspect of British life à â â from trade and transportation to health and recreation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 201mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1214g
• ISBN-13: 9780008194314
• ISBN-10: 0008194319
• Artikelnr.: 44989293

Autorenporträt

Historian Ruth Goodman is an expert in British social and domestic history. She has written and presented numerous acclaimed BBC television series and is a regular presenter on The One Show. She has co-authored numerous other books with Peter Ginn, including the bestselling Victorian Farm and Edwardian Farm. Peter Ginn has swum the Rio Grande during a flash flood, graduated from the Institute of Archaeology UCL, had a picture hung in the National Gallery (aged 8 3/4), set fire to himself twice, made over fifty hours of award-winning primetime television for BBC Two, been forced up a pyramid at gun point, spent a night locked in the Tower of London, helped build a castle in France, broken into his headmaster¿s car (with his blessing), lost a black watch scotch egg in the middle of a tornado and learnt the secret of how to wrestle a cow.