| Author: | Terry Coleman | ISBN: | 9781784082314 |
| Publisher: | Head of Zeus | Publication: | May 21, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Head of Zeus | Language: | English |
| Author: | Terry Coleman |
| ISBN: | 9781784082314 |
| Publisher: | Head of Zeus |
| Publication: | May 21, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Head of Zeus |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
