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Ocean Liners - A New History by Anthony Burton
0.00 AUD
Category: Transport
There has always been a romance around ocean liners, but this book looks behind the romance to show the reality of travelling the oceans of the world. The book starts with the first scheduled transatlantic crossings in the age of sail, then moves on through the development of the steamers and ends in th ...Show more
Ten Engineers Who Made Britain Great: The Men Behind the Industrial Revolution by Anthony Burton
39.99 AUD
Category: History
Samuel Smiles published Lives of the Engineers in 1862. The noted biographer presented his engineers as heroic progress makers who conquered nature and overcame impossible obstacles to drive the Industrial Revolution forward, but included twisted and often fabricated accounts in his work. In Ten Engine ...Show more
The Canal Pioneers: Canal Construction from 2,500 BC to the Early 20th Century by Anthony Burton
65.00 AUD
Category: History
This is the story of canals used for transport and the men who built them from the earliest times, up to the end of the ninteenth century. This is a very long history: stones for the pyramids of Egypt were brought to the site by canal and one of the most imposing canal systems ever built, the Grand Cana ...Show more
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