Brunel: the life and times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel / R. Angus Buchanan
2006, First Edition. London; New York: Hambledon and London. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #367809
ISBN: 1852855258
Physical description: xxiv, 294 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Contents: An age of revolutions -- Apprenticeship -- Castles in the sky -- Bristol -- The great western railway -- Overseas projects -- Disasters -- The great ship -- Other significant works -- The professional man -- Politics and society -- Victorian family man -- The heroic age of British engineering. Subjects: Civil engineers Great Britain; Biography. Brunel, Isambard Kingdom 1806-1859. Engineering: English history.
Price: €18.00