Description - George and Robert Stephenson: A Passion for Success by David Ross
From poverty to great wealth and obscurity to world fame, George and Robert Stephenson's was an extraordinary joint career. While giving full treatment to their great engineering exploits, this authoritative biography also explores their domestic lives, personalities and relationships, and their involvement with the ideas of the time. The result is a rounded and highly readable portrayal of the father and son strikingly different characters who, it can be said, set the modern world in motion. AUTHOR: David Ross is a professional writer, mainly of general history and transport history books. He is a member of the publications committee of the Railway & Canal Historical Society and is the author of The Willing Servant: a History of the Steam Locomotive and The Highland Railway. He lives in Herefordshire. 53 b/w illustrations
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