Sarah Searight
Auteur de The British in the Middle East
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Œuvres de Sarah Searight
Steaming East: The 100 Year Saga of the Struggle to Forge Rail and Steamship Links Between Europe and India (1991) 8 exemplaires
Britain and Iran 1790-1980 : collected essays of Sir Denis Wright (2003) — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
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- Œuvres
- 9
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- 58
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- 3.8
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- 10
A reliable rule when dealing with railway history is to avoid anything that opens with Fanny Kemble's account of riding on the footplate with George Stephenson. This book manages to bring her in three times in half a dozen pages, and the opening chapter carries on its triumphant progress through the most overworked trivia of railway history by quoting Ruskin (out of context) on the Buxton to Bakewell line and telling us about the death of William Huskisson. Ouch!
Searight doesn't seem to be either an engineer or a historian by trade, but she clearly does know her way around the middle East and central Asia. Some of her explanations of the technical background come out rather confused. She can write very well when she wants to, but the book is sadly littered with repetitions, mixed metaphors, clichés, and similar signs of poor editing. Despite these limitations, the style is usually lively, and it's probably worth a read for the touches of insight that go along with Searight's first-hand knowledge of the places she's writing about.… (plus d'informations)