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Living Iron
Visual Legacy 2019 ISBN 9789081185059 Acqn 29442
Pb 22x27cm 240pp 197ills 100col £36

Iron is everywhere around us and within us. It is vital to organisms - it colours our blood as well as
the earth. We admire people with an iron constitution and a steely determination, and almost
everything we do involves iron and steel in some form. Yet we hardly seem to realise how reliant
on this ancient metal we are. Without iron there would be no cars, no cargo ships, no railways.
Most bridges and buildings would crumble. Agriculture would have stayed small and we would
have had no Industrial Revolution. There would be no energy networks, no elevators, no oyster-
shucking, no piano music... And paints would not have become what they are today. This book
describes the fascinating life of iron and our life with iron and steel, from the earliest days of our
planet to our growing ironworking techniques and the miracles that are achieved through
metallurgy today. It delves into an exceptional combination of qualities no other material offers us
and shows us why, through millennia of rust, recycling and reinvention, this tough stuff continues
to reveal enormous potential for our world and our future.

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