Overview
Pick, shovel, dynamite: the classic account of the men who built the railways.
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.
- | Author: Terry Coleman
- | Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- | Publication Date: Jul 11, 2019
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781784977344
- | ISBN-10: 1784977349