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Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain
Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain
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The Sunday Times -bestselling biography of the shepherd boy who changed the world with his revolutionary engineering and whose genius we still benefit from today. It brings back to life a man who should never have been forgotten, and captures the thrill of Telford's engineering beautifully.
\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 448 pages
\n Publication date: 25 January 2018
\n Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The captivating Sunday Times bestselling biography of the shepherd boy who revolutionized engineering and whose genius we still benefit from today. A biography of remarkable vigor...brings back to vivid life a man who should never have been forgotten. Andrew Marr. An evocative biography of Britain's greatest civil engineer...Glover captures the thrill of Telford's engineering quite beautifully. Guardian. Thomas Telford's name is familiar; his story less so. Born in 1757 in the Scottish Borders, his father died in his infancy, plunging the family into poverty. Telford's life soared to span almost eight decades of gloriously obsessive, prodigious productivity. Few people have done more to shape our nation. A stonemason turned architect turned engineer, Telford invented the modern road, built churches, harbors, canals, docks, the famously vertiginous Pontcysyllte aqueduct in Wales, and the dramatic Menai Bridge. His constructions were the greatest in Europe for a thousand years, and astonishingly, almost everything he ever built remains in use today. Intimate, expansive, and drawing on contemporary accounts, Man of Iron is the first full modern biography of Telford. It is a book of roads and landscapes, waterways and bridges, but above all, of how one man transformed himself into the greatest engineer Britain has ever produced.
\n Weight: 388g\n
Dimension: 131 x 198 x 29 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781408837481\n \n
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