History's Most Dangerous Jobs: Miners - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History's Most Dangerous Jobs: Miners write by Anthony Burton. This book was released on 2013-02-01. History's Most Dangerous Jobs: Miners available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mining is Britain's oldest industry, and this book follows the men and, in the past, women who spent their lives working underground. Since the New Stone Age various minerals have been wrested from British soil – copper, tin, gold, lead – but in later periods the key commodity was coal. Those who worked in the mines were constantly battling on two fronts: there was the continual danger of flood and explosion; and the often bitter struggles against the mine owners. This story is also one of invention and innovation, looking particularly at how the independent miners of Cornwall and Devon were at the forefront of the development of the steam engine that was to transform society. This, the second book in an exciting new series looking at Britain's most dangerous industries, is a tale of blood, sweat and death among a courageous and close-knit community that has now all but passed into history.
History's Most Dangerous Jobs: Navvies
History's Most Dangerous Jobs: Navvies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History's Most Dangerous Jobs: Navvies write by Anthony Burton. This book was released on 2012-01-31. History's Most Dangerous Jobs: Navvies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the story of the men who built Britain’s canals and railways – not the engineers and the administrators but the ones who provided the brawn and muscle. There had never been a workforce like the navvies, a great army of men, moving about the country following the work as it became available. This book will tell of their extraordinary feats of strength and their often colourful lives. They lived rough, usually having to make do with huts and shelters cobbled together from whatever materials were available. They worked hard and drank hard. Often exploited by their employers, they were always liable to erupt into riots that could have fatal results. The book will look at who these men were, where they came from – and destroy the myth that they were all Irish. It is a story full of drama, but above all one of great achievements.
West Virginia History
West Virginia History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook West Virginia History write by . This book was released on 2012. West Virginia History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Encyclopedia of American Political History
Encyclopedia of American Political History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopedia of American Political History write by Jack P. Greene. This book was released on 1984. Encyclopedia of American Political History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Fielding's the World's Most Dangerous Places
Fielding's the World's Most Dangerous Places - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fielding's the World's Most Dangerous Places write by Robert Young Pelton. This book was released on 1998. Fielding's the World's Most Dangerous Places available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Absolutely Fabulous" (Wired). "The single best source for unclassified intelligence information" (U.S. military deployment officer). "A real lifesaver" (Time). The critics rave and here's why: Robert Young Pelton goes where the timid fear to tread -- straight into the heart of the world's forbidden, lethal, even criminal places, and gives readers all they need to know to survive. Pelton reveals the hidden dangers, including disease, land mines, kidnapping, terrorists, mercenaries, mujahedin, and militias of more than 30 dangerous countries. With firsthand accounts of adventures in these places, Pelton provides indispensable information on contacts for rescue organizations, environmental groups, political activists (including rebel groups), training schools in outdoor survival, ice climbing, commando techniques, motorcycle racing, and other white-knuckle pursuits. The World's Most Dangerous Places is everything you didn't want to know about drugs, guns, crime, war, accidents, and uprisings, but should, in one engrossing book.
