The Railway Navvies

The Railway Navvies
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 326
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ISBN-10 : 9781784082314
ISBN-13 : 1784082317
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Book Synopsis The Railway Navvies by : Terry Coleman

Download or read book The Railway Navvies 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. 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.


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