The Railway Navvies
A History of the Men who Made the Railways
Published on 21. May 2015
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-78408-232-1 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
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) *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustrations
50 b&w illus
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78408-232-1 (9781784082321)
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Person
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.