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288 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781847086716
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Granta Books
Publication date: Not specified
Description
Not so very long ago, our roads, our buildings, our gravestones and our monuments were built from local rock, our cities were powered by coal from Welsh mines, and our lamps were lit with paraffin from Scottish shale. At the height of the empire, ...
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288 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781847086716
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Granta Books
Publication date: Not specified
Description
Not so very long ago, our roads, our buildings, our gravestones and our monuments were built from local rock, our cities were powered by coal from Welsh mines, and our lamps were lit with paraffin from Scottish shale. At the height of the empire, ...