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From tunnels and railways to bridges and ships, Isambard Kingdom Brunel would stop at nothing to realise his amazing engineering ideas.Born at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Brunel had a brilliant brain for design, and never tired of building new and exciting things the deepest tunnel, the longest bridge, the fastest train. For Brunel, the average and the ordinary were just not good enough. A perfectionist and a control freak, he would stop at nothing to complete a project, even when it meant taking hair-raising risks.Short Books is re-releasing some of its finest writing as a newly designed series of six childrens biographies called The Great Victorians. These are entertaining and engaging stories of some of historys most fascinating characters. They tell history in a novelistic, engaging way, a halfway house between storybooks and traditional history. There is abundant humour and drama too.With beautifully designed covers these books will catch the eyes of parents as well as children. Also published in a highly collectable set.

Author

Amanda Mitchison

Publisher

Short Books, Limited

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781904977599