Buy this book on-line WOLMAR, CHRISTIAN: : BLOOD, IRON & GOLD: HOW THE RAILWAYS TRANSFORMED THE WORLDLONDON.ATLANTIC BOOKS/GROVE ATLANTIC LTD.,2009. ISBN 9781848871700.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 9-1 descending.] FINE-/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,wrap-around snowbound railway scenic colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with brown printed and gold embossed lettering to front and similarly to spine/backstrip too,rear panel with black+brown lettered critics' reviews; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top edges clean but with sporadic and minimal faint foxing stretching from headband to approx. half-way along same edges,fore-edges bright and clean without any foxing; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages’ corners – pristine,appears unread, apart from my own collation.Publisher’s bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original,plain burgundy cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/ backstrip and immaculate/clean plain pale grey sets of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,viii-xxvpp+1373pp [paginated] includes maps+illus lists,a Preface, acknowledgements,7pp b/w regional (continents) rail maps,13 chapters,20pp of facsimile contemporary b/w+colour illus reproductions and contemporary b/w+colour photographs,in 3 blocks of 8pp,4pp,and 8pp between pp70/1,166/7 and pp262/3 respectively,a 6pp bibliography,Notes and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication,and contents list/table.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age, and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the minor fault described that prevent a slightly higher grading.
'Blood, Iron and Gold' reveals the huge impact of the railways as they spread rapidly across the world,linking cities that had hitherto been isolated, stimulating both economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale. From Panama to the Punjab,Christian Wolmar describes the vision and determination of the pioneers who developed railways that would one day span continents,as well as the labour of the navvies who built this global network.Wolmar shows how cultures were enriched - and destroyed - by the unrelenting construction and how they had a vital role in civil conflict,as well as in two world wars.Indeed,the global expansion of the railways was key to the spread of modernity and the making of the modern world.
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