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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. Many were Irish, and worked as organised gang labour doing some of teh dirtiest ad most dangerous work in excavation , tunneling and laying railways.
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.
Scuffing to the covers, and MODERATE creasing to the spine, age tanning to the page block, no marks or inscriptions. Somewhat oddly, a small section of some of the corners of some pages have been removed.
