The riches beneath our feet
Subtitle: how mining shaped Britain
By: Geoff Coyle
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780199551293
Description: "Professor Geoff Coyle, a former mining engineer and from a mining family himself, sketches the story of how mining has shaped Britain. The account is wide ranging, involving stories of the mineral wealth of Britain and its expliotation, from simple quarrying to the advent of mass production. There are tales of the miners' lives and the great mining families, as well as accounts of the miner's work, the conditions in the mines, and mining disasters. Coyle weaves his personal experience and passion into the story, illuminating the industrial history, geology, and technology. Each chapter highlights one of the main mining fields and explores the mineral in question, its exploitation, and how technological changes affected the mining techniques used."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-261) and index.