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The enthralling Sunday Times-bestselling biography of the shepherd boy who changed the world with his revolutionary engineering and whose genius we still benefit from todayThomas 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, prodigiously productive energy., Few people have done more to shape our nation. A stonemason turned architect turned engineer, Telford invented the modern road, built churches, harbours, 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.
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A biography of great verve . brings back to vivid life a man who should never have been forgotten (Andrew Marr)
'Glover has done detailed research and any other author will struggle to improve on his life of Telford . Man of Iron is a competent, interesting book about an engineer whose star . deserves to shine a little brighter' (Simon Heffer Daily Telegraph)
'An evocative biography of Britain's greatest civil engineer . An evocative telling of an interesting life, an account that has lots to admire . Glover catches the thrill of Telford's engineering quite beautifully' (Guardian)
'A strikingly clear portrait of the man who helped shape Britain. ... A beautifully-written biography, reading almost as a work of classic literature' (Engineering & Technology)
'Vivid, enthusiastic . Glover makes an enormously readable and persuasive case for Telford's importance in our national story' (Dominic Sandbrook Sunday Times)
'Astonishing and inspiring . Mixing effortless prose with genuine insight has produced an immersive biography that proves hard to put down . The story of Thomas Telford is the story of modern Britain, and never has it been so well told' (BBC Countryfile)
'Glover has sailed across Telford's aqueducts, walked his towpaths and tracked down his most obscure Scottish bridges [and his] dedication . has paid off' (Harry Mount Spectator)
'Absorbing . [Glover's] clear, concise style gives the plain-speaking Telford . a fitting literary treatment' (Observer)
'Glover has ... been digging in the archives with Telfordian energy to produce a readable book about an overlooked man' (Damian Whitworth The Times)
'This is a fine biography of a man of outstanding genius' (Who Do You Think You Are?)
Biografía del autor
Julian Glover is a journalist, speechwriter and special adviser. Previously a columnist for the Guardian, in 2011 he was appointed chief speechwriter to David Cameron before in 2012 being made special adviser in the UK Department for Transport. He is married to The Times columnist and former Conservative MP Matthew Parris.
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- Año de publicación2018
- ISBN 10 140883748X
- ISBN 13 9781408837481
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