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| A. SASSOLI-WALKER & S. POOLE Book Number: 74033 |
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Drawing on the words of both passengers and crew, this lovely book celebrates the innovation in cruise ship design that Artemis -The Royal Princess represented, and highlights her career with both ...
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| CHARLES MOSELEY Book Number: 82748 |
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Ernest Shackleton once said "I burn with a strange passion for the South" - the author feels the same about the North. A laudably busy chap, he is a lecturer in English at Cambridge, Fellow of the...
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| RICHARD O. SMITH Book Number: 84514 |
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Suffering from acute acrophobia and also a bathmophobic - a fully functioning adult who is afraid of stairs - Richard O. Smith emanates from Oxford's Town not Gown and his admiration for an histori...
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| ANTHONY BURTON Book Number: 84715 |
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We very rarely acquire a Pitkin publication at a discounted price so we are thrilled with this little offering with the LNER Flying Scotsman gracing the front cover. Includes James Watt, the engin...
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| STEPHEN MCSHANE & GARY WILK Book Number: 85048 |
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From 1896 to 1970 the USA was the world's biggest producer of steel. Not only was steelmaking the country's biggest business in its heyday, but it was a peculiarly American one, an industry that ch...
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| DAVID MAIDMENT Book Number: 85597 |
Published price: £25
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Beautifully produced by Pen & Sword, this second volume of Maidment's account of his career as a railway manager and chronicler of the last days of steam is a delight to read, with some wonderful p...
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| DON BENN Book Number: 85908 |
Published price: £30
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The collection focusses on train running performances, modern and motive power and all matters Southern. Locomotive performance in Europe, and a tramway are also included and a fascinating and lit...
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| MURRAY NAYLOR Book Number: 85915 |
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Cleverly combining his passions of railway organisation and medieval churches, the author embarks on various journeys as he explains how two great ages shaped our lives; that of the Normans who bui...
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| RODERICK FOWKES Book Number: 85919 |
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Life trying to get onto the footplate for a youngster whose dreams of becoming an Engine Driver were dashed in 1956, when a medical at Derby revealed he had not obtained the required colour vision ...
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| MITCH PEEKE ET AL Book Number: 85926 |
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Unlike most other books on the subject of the opulent passenger liner Lusitania, which was sunk by a German submarine in 1915, this also researches the liner's beginnings, her innovative advances i...
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| JONATHAN YATES Book Number: 85927 |
Published price: £40
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Actor-mates Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman made round-the-world motorcycling fashionable with their Long Way Round TV documentaries, but what is RTW biking really like without brand-new BMWs, sp...
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| BRIAN COREY Book Number: 85932 |
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As the name implies, for each of the year's 366 days we discover what happening (or, often, happenings) in automotive history occurred then, with all the details and implications and (mostly) colou...
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| RICHARD ENSOR Book Number: 85934 |
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A few miles to the east of Hastings, on the beach at Pett Level, lies the wreck of the warship Anne, and just a few times a year, at very low tides, it is possible to see her outline and some of he...
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| OCTOPUS PUBLISHING Book Number: 85673 |
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Abbeys, ancient monuments, aquaria, art galleries, castles and churches, country and farm parks, historic houses and gardens, museums, picnic areas, preserved railways, roman antiquity, safari and ...
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| EDITED BY ANDREW LAMBERT Book Number: 85832 |
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A visually stunning art history featuring 360 of the most celebrated ships from history and fiction in one stylishly produced volume. Each has a dramatic story immortalised in an evocative artwork...
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| ALLAN SCOTT-DAVIES Book Number: 85991 |
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The tragic ways that the victims contained within these pages met their ends include deaths in canals and rivers, quarries and pools and even the seemingly innocent bath tub. There are grisly tale...
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| NORMAN FERGUSON Book Number: 86003 |
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Amos Root was the editor and publisher of the unlikely sounding aviation magazine Gleanings in Bee Culture. On 20th September 1904 Root was given the opportunity to spend time with the Wright brot...
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| DAVID DOYLE Book Number: 86069 |
Published price: £17.95
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The BMW R4, R12, R35, R71, R74 and Zündapp KS750 all appear in this amazing gallery and visual history of vintage photos and restored examples. Over 200 archive photographs are then followed by a ...
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| RUSSELL MILLER Book Number: 81384 |
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After a spell in the militia in India and then Africa, where, after recovering from a serious injury received in the Boer War, he was seconded to the West African Frontier Force, Trenchard was beco...
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| JAMES HANSEN Book Number: 86217 |
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The first man to set foot on the moon on 20 July, 1969, Neil Armstrong enjoyed the celebrity that followed, although it cost him his first marriage. By temperament an undemonstrative small-town bo...
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| MICHAEL PORTILLO Book Number: 86224 |
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Clutching his trusty Bradshaw's and wearing a colourful array of jackets and chinos, actually on this occasion he is clutching his Appleton's General Guide to the United States and Canada Parts One...
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| ALEX IRVINE Book Number: 86227 |
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The X-Jet or Blackbird is a high-altitude, high-speed reconnaissance and light combat aircraft, continuously modified over five decades of its service life. It was a successor to the destroyed Str...
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| GEOFF PLUMB Book Number: 86356 |
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The Big Four railway companies were nationalised in 1948, and the newly formed British Railways embarked on a programme of building new 'Standard' steam locomotives to replace older types from 1951...
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| D. WILLIAMS & R. DE KERBRECH Book Number: 86358 |
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A Pas De Deux, Two British Bulldogs and Uncle Sam's Challenge are among the chapters in this exciting incursion into Atlantic passenger traffic. During the late 1920s and early 1930s, three pairs ...
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| DAVID WRAGG Book Number: 86360 |
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The arrival of the railways cannot be underestimated. Even in the middle of the 19th century, the streets of London were so congested that in 1867, no less than 3.5 million of the eight million pa...
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| FRED KERR & KEITH LANGSTON Book Number: 86362 |
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From 1957 onwards, the former railway depot at Camforth, renamed Steamtown, became a mecca for railway enthusiasts after being secured by a preservation group chaired by Dr Peter Beet. In 1974, Si...
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| WILLIAM MILLER Book Number: 86365 |
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The author of over 100 books on passenger ships is a frequent guest lecturer aboard cruise ships. A 24 page colour section showcases beautifully in stunning images a nostalgic overview of the worl...
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| JOHN WALTER Book Number: 86370 |
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A big History Press publication which began life in the 1990s as a guide to an exhibition and has grown just like the Rocket to Big Boy by progression into this showcase publication. With the 19th...
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| JONATHAN CLAY Book Number: 86376 |
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In the field of railway art and heritage railways, John Clay's paintings are highly prized and appreciated. As a youngster, the family took the Model Railway News, and a feature of this publicatio...
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| ADRIAN MARSHALL Book Number: 86379 |
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One of the really beautifully produced colour plates includes one of Singapore Town from the Government Hill looking southwest, 1846 and the superb and very realistic oil painting of Captain Willia...
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