Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain

Julian Glover

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, London, 2018

140883748X / 9781408837481

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The enthralling Sunday Times-bestselling biography of the shepherd boy who changed the world with his revolutionary engineering and whose genius we still benefit from today'A biography of great verve brings back to vivid life a man who should never have been forgotten' Andrew MarrAn evocative biography of Britains greatest civil engineer Glover catches the thrill of Telfords engineering quite beautifully GuardianThomas Telford's name is familiar; his story less so. Born in 1757 in the Scottish Borders, his father died in his infancy, plunging the family into poverty. Telford's life soared to span almost eight decades of gloriously obsessive, prodigiously productive energy. Few people have done more to shape our nation.A stonemason turned architect turned engineer, Telford invented the modern road, built churches, harbours, canals, docks, the famously vertiginous Pontcysyllte aqueduct in Wales and the dramatic Menai Bridge. His constructions were the greatest in Europe for a thousand years, and astonishingly almost everything he ever built remains in use today. Intimate, expansive and drawing on contemporary accounts, Man of Iron is the first full modern biography of Telford. It is a book of roads and landscapes, waterways and bridges, but above all, of how one man transformed himself into the greatest engineer Britain has ever produced. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

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Titre
Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain
Auteur
Julian Glover
Éditeur
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, London
Année de publication
2018
État de l'article
Very Good
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
140883748X
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781408837481
Poids de l'article
381 grammes
Dimensions
128.0 x 196.0

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