The Railway Navvies: A History of the Men who Made the Railways

ISBN-13: 9781784977344 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 320 str.

Terry Coleman

Opis

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.