Underground Life

Or, Mines and Miners

By:

Louis Simonin

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - Technology

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Born in Marseilles, Louis Simonin (1830–86) became a leading mining engineer of his age. He travelled widely on government and private commissions, particularly around the United States, where he was held in very high esteem. His posthumous renown rests primarily on this substantial work on mining, first published in 1867. The book is divided into three parts, dealing with coal mining, metal mining, and the mining of precious stones. It covers metallurgy and mineralogy, the history of mining, and techniques, methods and equipment. Bringing the struggles of miners to life, and enhanced by numerous illustrations by some of the leading engravers of the day, the book is regarded as having inspired and informed Émile Zola, whose great novel Germinal (1885) depicts coal miners' lives during a strike. Simonin's work reached a wide readership in his native France, and this English translation appeared in 1869.

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Release date NZ

August 28th, 2014

Author

Louis Simonin

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Edited and translated by H. W. Bristow

Illustrations

16 Plates, color; 31 Plates, black and white; 14 Maps; 133 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

660

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - Technology

Dimensions

170x244x34

ISBN-13

9781108072014

Product ID

22574637

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