The Railway Navvies
Download or Read eBook The Railway Navvies PDF written by Terry Coleman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Terry Coleman |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2015-05-21 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781784082314 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1784082317 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Railway Navvies by : Terry Coleman
Book excerpt: 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.
