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21 May 2015 * EBOOK * £6.99 * 9781784082314

Pick, shovel, dynamite: the classic account of the men who built the railways.

Non Fiction / WGF (Transport)

Extent: 320 pages Illus: 50 b&w illus

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The Railway Navvies

by Terry Coleman

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.

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.

'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)

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