The railway navvies : a history of the men who made the railways
Coleman, Terry1981
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The story of the men who built the railways, the unknown labourers of the 19th century. Preached at and plundered, sworn at and swindled, these people endured perils and disasters and carved out of the English countryside a new iron-age architecture.
Main title:
The railway navvies : a history of the men who made the railways / Terry Coleman.
Author:
Imprint:
Harmondsworth : Penguin by arrangement with Hutchinson, 1968 (1981 [printing])
Collation:
256p.,[16]p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 18cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London : Hutchinson, 1965.Bibliography: p244-246. _ Includes index.
ISBN:
9780140055429 (pbk)
Dewey class:
331.76251000941331.7625100941331.762512331.762
Local class:
625.12309
Language:
English
BRN:
1301741