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ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL: ENGINEERING KNIGHT-ERRANT

by Adrian Vaughan

Published by John Murray. 1992

Slightly better than very good condition. Card wraps. Biography of the famous engineer.

ISBN: 0719546362
Stock no. 1609277

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Contents

  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • I APPRENTICE TO MARC
  • 1 Invention and Insecurity
  • 2 Without a Penny
  • 3 Isambard the Indestructible
  • 4 Ambition versus Love
  • II GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY
  • 5 The Bristol Connection
  • 6 Ambition Uppermost
  • 7 Fishponds and Flattery
  • 8 'For the Love of Fame'
  • 9 'If I ever go Mad'
  • 10 Transatlantic Visionary
  • 11 Patience in Adversity
  • 12 Isambard at Bay
  • 13 Isambard Triumphant
  • 14 Wrath and Pettifoggery
  • III BRIDGES AND SHIPS
  • 15 Isambard's Bridges
  • 16 SS Great Britain
  • 17 The Holed Saucepan
  • 18 Engineering Knight-Errant
  • 19 Double Standards
  • 20 'Stark, staring, wildly mad'
  • 21 Brunel - Paterfamilias
  • 22 The Puppet-Master
  • 23 The Great Persuader
  • IV GREAT SHIP - OR WHITE ELEPHANT?
  • 24 Heading for Disaster
  • 25 Jibes and Jealousy
  • 26 Brunel - Brusque and Fretful
  • 27 The Great Dictator
  • 28 Failing Fast
  • 29 Nemesis

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