The Railway Navvies: A History of the Men Who Made the Railways by Terry Coleman

The Railway Navvies: A History of the Men Who Made the Railways

Terry Coleman

320 pages paperback 1970

3 editions

nonfiction classics history informative reflective slow-paced
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This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways--the unknown Victorian laborers who blasted, tunneled, drank, and brawled their way across 19th-century England.Preached at and plundered, sworn at and swindled, this anarchic elite en...

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