Rail from Sorensen Books : Your Vancouver Island Bookshop

May require extra postage.1.1 kg The Sunday Times Bestseller. Forward by Michael Portillo. A glorious insight into Britain over the last 150 years - its history, landscape and people - from the window of Britain's many and magnificent railway journeys. Inspired by George Bradshaw, a 19th-century cartographer who mapped Britain's railways as they sprung up around him, Charlie Bunce and… Read more

'Mr Rolt has written an exceptional book, based on original research, temperate, imaginative, truthful, and one in which the influence of family - for Brunel's father, Marc, was of a stature not far short of his son - is given proper weight. Moreover, he has been able to convey the effect of Brunel's force and charm.' … Read more