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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| MILES COWSILL Book Number: 86382 |
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Cunard's Golden Age occurred after WWII, when their ocean liners Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth were the epitome of luxury ocean travel. With speeds of over 30 knots, these two sisters were the la...
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| COLIN GARRATT Book Number: 86463 |
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A man with a remarkable talent and a romantic mission in life, Colin Garratt for many years has toured distant lands in search of the last remaining locomotives in use on the railway networks world...
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| SIMPLY MEDIA Book Number: 86536 |
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The Red Arrows is the world's best known acrobatic display team, the product of a long tradition of excellence in RAF air show flying. At air shows throughout the world they perform one of Britain...
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| FRED M. WALKER Book Number: 86939 |
Published price: $45.95
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Sub-titled 'Pioneers of Design and Construction' the text is written by the Naval Architect at the National Maritime Museum. Ships have evolved over thousands of years and are the largest and most...
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| JOHN NORRISS Book Number: 86882 |
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Men in battle have long been known to decorate their armour or given names their personal weapons. King Arthur had Excalibur and Odin Gram. The tradition of naming military hardware and decoratin...
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| SCOTT ADDINGTON Book Number: 87085 |
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Sub-titled '100 Defining Moments from the Royal Air Force 1918-2018' in short pithy pages are facts, statistics, dozens of diagrams, colour photos and graphics, side cutaway drawings and details of...
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| BARRY PARKER Book Number: 86962 |
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The most enjoyable aspect of the six decades of Bond films is not the one-liners, the pulchritudinous females, the suave opulence or the baddies - it's the gadgets! James Bond would have died a tho...
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| CLIFFORD FOUST Book Number: 86970 |
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John Frank Stevens (1853-1943) was one of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years, arguably the greatest and responsible for surely the most important projects of US civil engineer...
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| JOHN RUSSELL Book Number: 86372 |
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A journey from Newbury to Bath in 1964, goodness how much has changed in 55 years! This photographic journey takes us along a well-trodden footpath, under ancient bridges, over locks and swing bri...
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| RICHARD COPPING Book Number: 87299 |
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The Volkswagen Beetle was developed by Ferdinand Porsche in response to Hitler's wish that every German would be able to buy a simple, economical car. At the end of the war the factory happened to ...
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| ANTHONY BURTON Book Number: 87216 |
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Thomas Telford, the "Colossus of Roads", grew up in remote Eskdale but had the good fortune to be apprenticed to the Duke of Buccleuch as a mason on his estate at Langholm. The Duke was an "improv...
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| DEMAND MEDIA Book Number: 87404 |
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The one hour long film is a superb programme that looks at the GWR as it was in the 1950s and 60s and more recently. Archive scenes capture the true essence with its Brunellian stations and platfo...
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| DEMAND MEDIA Book Number: 87412 |
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The Romans introduced canals to the British islands as early as AD120, the late 1700s a network of man-made arteries linked major rivers and sea ports to land-locked industrialised cities and towns...
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| CHRIS HANDLEY Book Number: 87392 |
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As seen on HTV's Lost Railways this book is the product of nearly 30 years research by the author, a well known historian, and it is illustrated with over 130 photographs, maps, plans, posters and ...
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| DEMAND MEDIA Book Number: 87429 |
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For many driving a steam engine remains an impossible dream. This 51 minute colour film shows that anyone can become an engine driver and that the key ingredients are commitment and enthusiasm. M...
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| CHRISTOPHER POTTER Book Number: 88009 |
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The first photos of the earth seen from the moon prompted a reassessment of what it means to be human. Famously Yuri Gagarin did not meet God in space, but eight years later Buzz Aldrin made a poin...
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| JAMES SEAY DEAN Book Number: 88082 |
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"Whosoever commands the sea commands the trade and, consequently, the world itself" said Sir Walter Ralegh and England in the 16th and early 17th centuries made every effort to do just that. But wh...
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| PAUL ARNOTT Book Number: 88083 |
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The Windrush scandal shocked the nation and rattled and shamed the government and continues to do so. However, the vessel itself had a remarkable history both before and after her voyage from the C...
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| SIMON HEPTINSTALL Book Number: 87794 |
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Sub-titled 'A Graphic Guide to Automotive Logos and Emblems', and endorsed by the A.A., here is an illustrated guide to iconic automobile badges of the last 120 years. Covering over 90 marques fro...
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| PRESTON LERNER Book Number: 87833 |
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Sub-titled 'The History, Technology and Design Behind Italy's Legendary Automaker', here is how to become an expert on the world's greatest marque. In specially commissioned full page colour artwo...
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| SIMON WILLS Book Number: 87842 |
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Janet Schaw, 1774: 'Nothing can be less cleanly than our cabin, unless it be its commander?' Britain's island status means that its citizens have always needed to cross the waves to travel any gre...
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| CHRISTOPHER M. BELL Book Number: 83463 |
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Winston Churchill had a longer and closer relationship with the Royal Navy than any British statesman in modern times, but his record as naval Commander in Chief and strategist has been mired in co...
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