This is my review of Anthony Burton's "the Canal Builders", published here at the third book in his trilogy by mistake.
A succinct, entertaining writing of the transformation of England by the canallers, starting with Francis Egerton, who completed his Duke of Bridgewater's canal in 1761 at age 25. The peak of the Canal Age in England was 1793 which is when John Hancock subscribed $40 for the building of the Middlesex Canal in Massachusetts. As a member of the Middlesex Canal Association, my understanding of the beginning of canals and the Industrial Age in America was greatly changed by reading this clearly written, short book. Specifically, England was bustling in the eighteenth century, and America built on the progress in England. I look forward to reading more of Anthony Burton's more than thirty books.