{"product_id":"winterstoke-von-l-t-c-rolt","title":"Winterstoke","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'It had always struck me that, despite its overwhelming importance in the story of mankind, far too little attention had been paid to the Industrial Revolution in literature and art . . . I conceived the idea of concentrating a number of actual historical happenings in the English Midlands upon one imaginary industrial town . . . from the days of the first monastic mill on the river to the present day when an atomic research establishment on the outskirts of a huge blackened town struck a new apocalyptic note . . . I called my imaginary town Winterstoke.' Tom Rolt, writing in 1972\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eL. T. C. ('Tom') Rolt (1919-74) was a famed pioneer in the preservation of Britain's canal networks and railways, a biographer of the great civil engineers, and a forerunner of our current green movement. \u003ci\u003eWinterstoke\u003c\/i\u003e (1952), arguably his most visionary work, is reissued here with a new introduction featuring his widow Sonia and son Tim.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9780571326020\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9780571326020","offer_id":39415284367453,"sku":"9780571326020","price":30.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/d2a3f170-ac4e-4b00-8d21-2614ac165735.jpg?v=1780460075","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/winterstoke-von-l-t-c-rolt","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}