THE RAILWAY NAVVIES: A History of the Men Who Made the Railways

THE RAILWAY NAVVIES: A History of the Men Who Made the Railways - 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. Condition: Good - Author: Terry Coleman - Publisher: Pimlico - Pages: 256 - Paperback