Random House: Bringing You the Best in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Children's Books
Authors
Books
eBooks
Newletters and Alerts
153 books in Transportation

Subscribe to the Random House What's New Newsletter.

Your Email Address:

Subscribe to our RSS/XML feed with web-based news readers.
Click your choice:

RSS
RSS PDF
Atom Feed
Add to Google

Browse Category

Find more Transportation books by browsing the categories below.

Transportation:

Transportation:

Sort: Author   Bestselling  Format   Date   Price   Title  
Fancy Cycling, 1901
Fancy Cycling, 1901
Written by Isabel Marks
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781908402714
Our Price: $14.95
 Quantity: 1 
Buy From a Local Store

Fancy Cycling, 1901
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...

Read more >
Bradshaw's Handbook
Bradshaw's Handbook
Written by George Bradshaw
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781908402028
Our Price: $15.95
 Quantity: 1 
Buy From a Local Store

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 >
The Golden Age of Air Travel
The Golden Age of Air Travel
Written by Nina Hadaway
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780747812234
Our Price: $12.95
 Quantity: 1 
Buy From a Local Store

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 >
Also available as an eBook.
Transatlantic Liners
Transatlantic Liners
Written by J. Layton
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780747810872
Our Price: $11.95
 Quantity: 1 
Buy From a Local Store

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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
Also available as a trade paperback.
Victorian and Edwardian Railway Travel
Victorian and Edwardian Railway Travel
Written by David Turner
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780747811503
Our Price: $12.95
 Quantity: 1 
Buy From a Local Store

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 >
Traffic
Traffic
Written by Tom Vanderbilt, Read by David Slavin
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780739370339
Our Price: $15.00

For more information about downloading this audiobook
visit our Audiobook Download FAQ page.

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 >
Outlaw Machine
Outlaw Machine
Written by Brock Yates
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780767905169
Our Price: $19.00
 Quantity: 1 
Buy From a Local Store

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 >
View pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
Page 4 of 16
View past category highlights: