Conquerors of Time: Exploration and Invention in the Age of Daring
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The modern world was made in an unruly age of tremendous possibility. This is the story of the seafarers, engineers, inventors and trailblazers who built the sinews of transport and communication that held together the British Empire. Here are the men of the Arctic ice, the desert fire, the jungles and the seas. Here are the missionary engineers swelling the knowledge of iron, steam and electricity. They bridge the chasms, build the roads and railways, fashion the machines, lay the transoceanic cables and string the telegraph wires. Here too are the doctors groping for answers to terrible diseases, scientists battling the great enigmas, surveyors and cartographers slowly making sense and shape of the world, the unsung armies of labourers and the artists and photographers who bring the stories home to an avid public.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0719555175
ISBN13:9780719555176
Release Date:January 2004
Publisher:John Murray Publishers
Length:444 Pages
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