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...
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Inside the Sky
A Meditation on Flight
Written by Willia Langewiesche
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 29, 1999
Price: $16.00
William Langewiesche's life has been deeply intertwined with the idea and act of flying. Fifty years ago his father, a test pilot, wrote
Stick and Rudder, a text still considered by many to be the bible of aerial navigation. Langewiesche himself learned to fly while still a child. Now he shares his pilot's-eye view...
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The God Machine
From Boomerangs to Black Hawks: The Story of the Helicopter
Written by James R. Chiles
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: November 26, 2008
Price: $9.99
From transforming the ways of war to offering godlike views of inaccessible spots, revolutionizing rescues worldwide, and providing some of our most-watched TV moments—including the cloud of newscopters that trailed O. J. Simpson’s Bronco—the helicopter is far more capable than early inventors expected. Now James Chiles profiles the many
helicoptrians who...
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Route 66
Written by David Knudson
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $9.95
As early as 1916 - just eight years after Henry Ford's Model T revolutionized the automobile industry - Congress embarked on legislation that would link America's major cities by highway. But it wasn't until 1925 that the government began executing its plan for national highway construction. In summer 1926, Route 66...
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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...
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British Railways in the 1950s and 60s
Written by Greg Morse
Format: eBook, 56 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $7.95
The 1950s saw a realisation that British Railways needed to modernise its equipment and rationalise its network if it was to hold its own in the face of growing competition from road and air transport. The next decade brought line closures, new liveries and the last breath of steam, as Doctor...
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The End of Detroit
How the Big Three Lost Their Grip on the American Car Market
Written by Micheline Maynard
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 23, 2003
Price: $17.99
An in-depth, hard-hitting account of the mistakes, miscalculations and myopia that have doomed America’s automobile industry.In the 1990s, Detroit’s Big Three automobile companies were riding high. The introduction of the minivan and the SUV had revitalized the industry, and it was widely believed that Detroit had miraculously overcome the threat of...
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Thinking Small
The Long, Strange Trip of the Volkswagen Beetle
Written by Andrea Hiott
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: January 17, 2012
Price: $13.99
Sometimes achieving big things requires the ability to think small. This simple concept was the driving force that propelled the Volkswagen Beetle to become an avatar of American-style freedom, a household brand, and a global icon. The VW Bug inspired the ad men of Madison Avenue, beguiled Woodstock Nation, and has...
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