Terry Coleman

eBook, ePUB

The Railway Navvies (eBook, ePUB)

A History of the Men who Made the Railways

Beschreibung

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.

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 49.5MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Terry Coleman, as a political journalist, interviewed eight prime ministers, from Macmillan to Blair, and in 1988 was named journalist of the year. His previous books include a biographical study of Thomas Hardy and a widely acclaimed biography of Nelson.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784082314
• Artikelnr.: 42616541

Rezensionen

'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