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Fancy Cycling, 1901
An Edwardian Guide
Written by Isabel Marks
Format: Hardcover, 116 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $14.95
An Edwardian Guide
Written by Isabel Marks
Format: Hardcover, 116 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $14.95
This is a special cloth hardcover gift edition reproduction of the original 1901 book which was one of the first to promote daring tricks for weird and wonderful acrobatics on two wheels, such as handle bar riding, riding backward and standing on the seat riding, hands off! Illustrated with period photographs...
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Bradshaw's Handbook
Written by George Bradshaw
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $15.95
Collector’s item, landmark in the history of the tour guide, snapshot of Britain in the 1860s – Bradshaw’s Handbook deserves a place on the bookshelf of any traveller, railway enthusiast, historian or anglophile. Produced as the British railway network was reaching its zenith, and as tourism by rail became a serious... Read more >
Written by George Bradshaw
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $15.95
Collector’s item, landmark in the history of the tour guide, snapshot of Britain in the 1860s – Bradshaw’s Handbook deserves a place on the bookshelf of any traveller, railway enthusiast, historian or anglophile. Produced as the British railway network was reaching its zenith, and as tourism by rail became a serious... Read more >
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The Golden Age of Air Travel
Written by Nina Hadaway
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $12.95
Air travel has always held a strong allure for many. Today, low-cost, no-frill airlines enable lots of people to fly easily and to visit different countries around the world. For much of its history, however, air travel was only available to the wealthy. This book explores the golden age of air... Read more >
Written by Nina Hadaway
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $12.95
Air travel has always held a strong allure for many. Today, low-cost, no-frill airlines enable lots of people to fly easily and to visit different countries around the world. For much of its history, however, air travel was only available to the wealthy. This book explores the golden age of air... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Transatlantic Liners
1899-2004
Written by J. Layton
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $11.95
Prior to air travel there was only one way to cross the Atlantic: by ship. By the late nineteenth century, steam ships dominated the transatlantic passenger trade, growing exponentially in size as maritime technology improved and as more immigrants poured from Europe into the New World. As the liners got bigger... Read more >
1899-2004
Written by J. Layton
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $11.95
Prior to air travel there was only one way to cross the Atlantic: by ship. By the late nineteenth century, steam ships dominated the transatlantic passenger trade, growing exponentially in size as maritime technology improved and as more immigrants poured from Europe into the New World. As the liners got bigger... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
British Railways in the 1970s and '80s
Written by Greg Morse
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: August 20, 2013
Price: $7.95
For British Rail, the 1970s was a time of contrasts, when bad jokes about sandwiches and pork pies often belied real achievements, like increasing computerisation and the arrival of the high-speed Inter-City 125s. But while television advertisements told of an ‘Age of the Train’, Monday morning misery continued for many, the... Read more >
Written by Greg Morse
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: August 20, 2013
Price: $7.95
For British Rail, the 1970s was a time of contrasts, when bad jokes about sandwiches and pork pies often belied real achievements, like increasing computerisation and the arrival of the high-speed Inter-City 125s. But while television advertisements told of an ‘Age of the Train’, Monday morning misery continued for many, the... Read more >
Route 66
The Mother Road
Written by David Knudson
Format: eBook, 56 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $7.95
Begun in 1926 to connect Chicago to Los Angeles, Route 66 was the country's first major east-west thoroughfare. By 1930 it was an important route for both truckers and travellers alike, and in 1939 it became known as 'The Mother Road' thanks to John Steinbeck's classic "The Grapes of Wrath". Over... Read more >
The Mother Road
Written by David Knudson
Format: eBook, 56 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $7.95
Begun in 1926 to connect Chicago to Los Angeles, Route 66 was the country's first major east-west thoroughfare. By 1930 it was an important route for both truckers and travellers alike, and in 1939 it became known as 'The Mother Road' thanks to John Steinbeck's classic "The Grapes of Wrath". Over... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Tractors
1880s to 1980s
Written by Nick Baldwin
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $9.95
Of all motor vehicles the farm tractor has proved to be among the most beneficial. It has freed hundreds of thousands of laborers and horses from backbreaking toil on the land in all weathers and it has stabilized the cost of food.
Starting with steam power in the middle of the nineteenth... Read more >
1880s to 1980s
Written by Nick Baldwin
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $9.95
Of all motor vehicles the farm tractor has proved to be among the most beneficial. It has freed hundreds of thousands of laborers and horses from backbreaking toil on the land in all weathers and it has stabilized the cost of food.
Starting with steam power in the middle of the nineteenth... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Victorian and Edwardian Railway Travel
Written by David Turner
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $12.95
For the majority of the British public in the Victorian period the railways were the only way to travel. In 1880 the population of Britain and Ireland took 518 million railway journeys, and by the turn of the century this number had risen to just over 1.1 billion. Therefore, for anyone... Read more >
Written by David Turner
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $12.95
For the majority of the British public in the Victorian period the railways were the only way to travel. In 1880 the population of Britain and Ireland took 518 million railway journeys, and by the turn of the century this number had risen to just over 1.1 billion. Therefore, for anyone... Read more >
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Traffic
Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
Written by Tom Vanderbilt
Read by David Slavin
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 29, 2008
Price: $15.00
Driving is a fact of life. We are all spending more and more time on the road, and traffic is an issue we face everyday. This audiobook will make you think about it in a whole new light.
We have always had a passion for cars and driving. Now Traffic offers us... Read more >
Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
Written by Tom Vanderbilt
Read by David Slavin
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 29, 2008
Price: $15.00
Driving is a fact of life. We are all spending more and more time on the road, and traffic is an issue we face everyday. This audiobook will make you think about it in a whole new light.
We have always had a passion for cars and driving. Now Traffic offers us... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Outlaw Machine
Harley-Davidson and the Search for the American Soul
Written by Brock Yates
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 2, 2000
Price: $19.00
The legendary story of Harley-Davidson's rise to power--not only as an international industry leader but as an American cultural icon.
How did the Harley-Davidson motorcycle, originally a machine for casual riders, evolve into a symbol of defiance and liberation? An embellished 1947 Life magazine article about a California town terrorized by gangs... Read more >
Harley-Davidson and the Search for the American Soul
Written by Brock Yates
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 2, 2000
Price: $19.00
The legendary story of Harley-Davidson's rise to power--not only as an international industry leader but as an American cultural icon.
How did the Harley-Davidson motorcycle, originally a machine for casual riders, evolve into a symbol of defiance and liberation? An embellished 1947 Life magazine article about a California town terrorized by gangs... Read more >
