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.
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 320 ● ISBN 9781784082314 ● Publisher Head of Zeus ● Published 2015 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5763770 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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