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Hardcover Conquerors of Time: Exploration and Invention in the Age of Daring Book

ISBN: 0719555175

ISBN13: 9780719555176

Conquerors of Time: Exploration and Invention in the Age of Daring

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,...

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