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| KEVIN TURNER Book Number: 81070 |
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Sub-titled 'A Hapless Biker's Guide to Europe', here is an hilarious insight into the challenges and excitement afforded by a lone motorcycle journey through Europe. In his quest to escape the fra...
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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 |
Published price: £20
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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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| STEVE WILSON Book Number: 83009 |
Published price: £40
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A celebration of the originality of the Speed Twin, Tiger, Thunderbird and Bonneville models, 1938-62. For most owners and potential buyers of these great machines the question of originality is v...
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| CLARE HORNE & KATHRYN PHELPS Book Number: 83694 |
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Here we have a most unusual anthology of WWI letters. In the course of the Great War the men of the Great Western Railway Audit Office who were serving in the armed forces kept up regular correspon...
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| KEITH LANGSTON Book Number: 84003 |
Published price: £25
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Scotland has always been renowned worldwide for its engineering prowess and this naturally included the design and construction of steam locomotives. During the steam era Scottish-built engines wor...
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| TIMOTHY JEFFERY Book Number: 84452 |
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Sub-titled "A Tribute to The World's Greatest Races, Sailors and Their Boats" this handsome volume is a stylish and beautifully illustrated production, with three clear sections making it easy to n...
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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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| RUDYARD KIPLING Book Number: 85045 |
Published price: £8.99
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In the decade leading up to WWI the government was spending huge amounts on building up the Royal Navy, the so-called 'silent service', and people were beginning to question where, exactly, this mo...
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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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| ELISABETH HÉBERT & G. HOLZER Book Number: 84769 |
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"A Navigational Treatise of Exceptional Opulence: The Complete Facsimile, 1583." Taschen publishers present a facsimile reproduction of Les premières oeuvres de Jacques Devaulx, pilote en la marin...
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| CHRIS TARRANT Book Number: 85083 |
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As a boy much-loved broadcaster Chris Tarrant always loved railways - not so much the trains, but the actual railways themselves, particularly in remote and exotic-sounding parts of the world, wher...
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| BARRY ROWE AND GARY DOYLE Book Number: 85547 |
Published price: £79.99
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Special numbered editions limited to 1,500 copies, each has been hand numbered and personally autographed by both the artist and author and comes in a smart British racing green clothbound slipcase...
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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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| Colin Maggs Book Number: 85727 |
Published price: £20
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The story of one of the most iconic railway companies of the great age of steam written by one of our country's foremost transport and engineering historians. Thousands of commuters south of the T...
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| WILLI JASPER Book Number: 85879 |
Published price: £18.99
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The 1915 sinking of the British liner Lusitania, homebound from New York, was the event that brought the US into World War I when it became known that 128 American citizens had perished. But from t...
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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 |
Published price: £25
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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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| BARRY PICKTHALL Book Number: 85928 |
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Few individuals in the theatre of war have achieved the status of Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron. Born into privilege (he was an actual Baron) he attended military school and began his warti...
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| NICK ROBINS Book Number: 85929 |
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Scotland's maritime heritage is unparalleled. For centuries the greatest shipbuilding nation in the world it has been the home of the engineering, ship-owning and entrepreneurial skills that were c...
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| FRED KERR Book Number: 85931 |
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A tribute in a colour photographic gallery to the so often forgotten types of steam trains ? the industrial locomotives. During the 1960s British Rail began the mass withdrawal of steam locomotives...
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| BRIAN COREY Book Number: 85932 |
Published price: £19.99
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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 |
Published price: £25
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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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| AA PUBLISHING Book Number: 85656 |
Published price: £9.99
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Test yourself with this brilliant set of all 777 official revision theory test questions from 2017. Every question is explained so the multiple choice gives the answer beneath, and often there is ...
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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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| MARTIN BOWMAN Book Number: 85160 |
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This is a history that will make the heart of any aviation lover soar with joy. Boeing 747 is arguably the most famous airliner, and was affectionately named 'Queen of the Skies'. This was a plane ...
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