The Railway Navvies - Couverture souple

Coleman, Terry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0712667075 ISBN 13 : 9780712667074

Editeur : Pimlico, 2000

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'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).

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pimlico
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0712667075
• ISBN 13: 9780712667074
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256