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Pudney, John. (Isambard Kingdom Brunel.) BRUNEL AND HIS WORLD.
Thames and Hudson, London, (1975), reprint.
128 pp, large 8vo (9 3/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with b&w photos, reproductions. "...few figures in the restless, energetic Victorian world so perfectly embodied its strivings as Isambard Kingdom Brunel - engineer, de signer, surveyor, builder and visionary. The only son of Sir Marc Brunel, creator of the first major underwater tunnel, bored beneath the Thames, Brunel designed the Clifton Suspension Bridge, pioneered the Great Western Railway, and initiate d , w i t h his three great ocean-going liners, the modern age of transatlantic steam-ship travel. With the dedication and intensity of an artist, Brunel sacrificed his persona life, driving himself from venture to venture, the grandeur and scale of h i s co nc eptions always challenging the technical resources of this times..." Small ink notation on front paste-down. Dust jacket is price-clipped, very light edge wear/wrinkling, tiny closed tear at bottom of spine, very light rubbing. VG /VG
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17.50 USD
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