The Railway Navvies: A History of the Men who Made the Railways - Softcover
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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'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)
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'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)
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.
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- Publication date2019
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