Conquerors of Time celebrates 150 years of courage, energy, innovation, resourcefulness and grand ideas, from the late 17th century to the early 20th.
It's about the seafarers, engineers, inventors and trailblazers who enabled the British to hold together a vast empire and the Americans to push their frontiers west.
Some, such as Captain Cook and Robert Stephenson are famous. Others, like the makers of chromonometers, the collectors of tropical plants or the railway engineers who roughed it in the Canadian wilderness are less well-known. What they all had in common is a desire to understand the world and a determination to harness the forces of nature.
'Trevor Fishlock's brio and broad vision matches those of his subjects and makes for a rattling good read.' Lawrence James,
Daily Mail
'Fact-filled and highly evocative ... the sheer romance of the story is irresistible.'
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HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1: The Copper King
- 2: With dauntless feet
- 3: Elephants for want of towns
- 4: The appointment with Venus
- 5: Simple fornication
- 6: The flowerpot men
- 7: The African meteor
- 8: The painted East
- 9: Pompey’s Pillar
- 10: The punishment of Ixion
- 11: The Atlantic ferry
- 12: By Vulcan’s Art my ample belly’s made
- 13: The great god tripod
- 14: Get me long distance
- 15: From Liverpool to the moon
- 16: Taller than my giant
- 17: The path to my fixed purpose
- 18: The precipice of time
- 19: Ice and fire
- 20: The ghost of the swamp
- 21: Alarms in distant places
- 22: Pictures of silver
- 23: Rivers in the sky
- 24: Mount Hopeless
- 25: The bush staccato
- 26: The cameleers
- 27: The driver cracked the whip
- 28: That art of masts
- 29: Posh
- 30: Laying the ghost
- 31: Halt in the name of the Queen
- 32: The light of the world
- 33: A gulag in Eden
- 34: Faster than witches
- 35: All aboard for the Pacific
- 36: Specimens
- 37: Your worship is your furnaces
- 38: In all things be men
- 39: Something in the air
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- Plates
- About the Author
- Copyright
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