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- Hardcover
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Seller: Martin Bott Bookdealers Ltd, Felixstowe, United KingdomMartin Bott Bookdealers Ltd
AbeBooks seller since November 5, 1999
Condition: Used - Fine
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Final volume of Rolt's autobiography, covering his later life inclduing the early years of the Talyllyn Railway preservation project. 246pp, illustrated. Fine copy of the 1st edition in dust wrapper.
Seller Inventory # 012996
- Title
- Landscape with Figures
- Author
- Rolt L T C
- Publisher
- Alan Sutton
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0862999987
- ISBN 13
- 9780862999988
- Edition
- 1st
- Dimensions
- 8vo
- Seller catalogs
- Biography, Canals & Waterways, Industrial History & Archaeology
Landscape with Figures is the third volume of this autobiography. The first, Landscape with Machines, focused on his younger days, from childhood to trainee engineer, and his ambition to explore the inland waterways of England in his converted narrowboat, Cressy. In the second volume, Landscape with Canals, Rolt described his meanderings through those waterlanes of England and Wales, combining, to some extent, his love for the English countryside with his life-long fascination with machines. In this book, written during the last years of his life, Rolt has taken up his pen once more to continue his intriguing and often diverse life-story. He gives an account of the early days of the Talyllyn Railway Company and Preservation Society, describes his involvement in vintage and veteran car rallies, and vividly recreates his travels on the Tralee-Dingle Light Railway in remote West Kerry. Intermingled with these are his struggles to become a writer of repute.
This final volume, published posthumously, completes the trilogy and is a fitting tribute to the man who, through his appreciation of the 'aesthetics of technology', could be said to have given a literary shape to the Industrial Revolution.
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Martin Bott Bookdealers Ltd
Felixstowe, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since November 5, 1999
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