Buy this book on-line Vaux, Peter: Forewod by Sir Peter Parker : Bengal EngineerDurham: Pentland Press, 1994
Hardback, first edition, very good condition, in a very good unclipped (£14.95) dust-jacket, publisher's original black clothboards with gilt blocking to spine, 202 pages, b/w photo and line illustrations, b/w maps--------In this revealing collection of letters, written between 1850 & 1873, Alfred Harris Vaux, a Civil Engineer for the East Indian Railway Company, Chronicles his beginnings in London, his professional training, his rise to the position of chief Engineer, & the trials of family life in India.--------Contents include: Early days; Passage to India; Rajmahal; Emily: The Indian Mutiny; Saffrabad, Monghyr 1; Monghyr II and Calcutta; Home Leave; calcutta and Simla; Will of Alfred Harris Vaux; Epilogue - What became of them all; Postscript; Appendix 1 - The East Indian Railway; Appendix 2 - The Institution of Civil Engineers. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Vaux, Peter: Forewod by Sir Peter Parker : Bengal Engineer. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres d'occasion, fine bindings, antiquarian books, livres anciens and libri antichi. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |