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The Story of Isambard Kingdom Brunel: The Man Who Built Britain

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a man with a brilliant brain for design, and never tired of building new and exciting things – the deepest tunnel, the longest bridge, the fastest train. For Brunel, the average and the ordinary were just not good enough. He was a perfectionist and a control freak. And he would stop at nothing to complete a project, even when if it meant taking hair-raising risks…

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