Description
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.
Pick, shovel, dynamite: the classic account of the men who built the railways.
About the Author
Terry Coleman is a historian, novelist, and award-winning reporter. His books include biographies of Olivier, Nelson and the history of British and Irish emigration, PASSAGE TO AMERICA. His novel SOUTHERN CROSS, was a worldwide bestseller.
Reviews
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) *
Book Information
ISBN 9781784977344
Author Terry Coleman
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Head of Zeus
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pick, shovel, dynamite: the classic account of the men who built the railways.
About the Author
Terry Coleman is a historian, novelist, and award-winning reporter. His books include biographies of Olivier, Nelson and the history of British and Irish emigration, PASSAGE TO AMERICA. His novel SOUTHERN CROSS, was a worldwide bestseller.
Reviews
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) *
Book Information
ISBN 9781784977344
Author Terry Coleman
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Head of Zeus
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
