You Wouldn't Want To Be: A Victorian Miner

Author: John Malam

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Price : $19.99 NZD
ISBN : 9780750235983
Publisher : hodch
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Weight (g) : 0.141
Publication date : 18 July 2002
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : John Malam
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In a British coal-mining village in the 1860s, a man would have to endure the dangers and difficulties of working in a Victorian mine. Find out how pit ponies are used, how the coal is mined and how to survive deep underground. You'll soon learn you wouldn't want to be a Victorian miner.

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'Social history cloaked in hilarity.' -- The Guardian

Author description

John Malam studied ancient history and archaeology at the University of Birmingham, after which he worked as an archaeologist at the Iron Bridge Gorge Museum in Shropshire. He is now an author specialising in information books for children. He lives in Cheshire with his wife, a book designer, and their two children.