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| LAWRENCE BURNS Book Number: 88311 |
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This fascinating hybrid is part freewheeling history of the rise of the modern autonomous vehicle, part intimate memoir from an insider who was on the front lines for much of that history. We are ...
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| PETER MILLAR Book Number: 88456 |
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Hop on board the railway system the length of Cuba and explore the last days of the Castro regime, a journey beginning at the capital, Havana, which was once dominated by the US mafia, and reaching...
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| BRIAN LAVERY Book Number: 88814 |
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In January 1778, during his third voyage across the Pacific, Captain Cook wrote in his journal, "How shall we account for this Nation spreading itself so far over this Vast ocean?" He was speaking ...
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| CHRIS FRAME & ROCHELLE CROSS Book Number: 88965 |
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Cunard is one of the oldest and most historic shipping lines, still floating with its 92,000-ton Queen Elizabeth and fleet mates Queen Victoria and mighty 151,000-ton Queen Mary 2. Within 70 years...
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| BRIAN LAVERY Book Number: 88499 |
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This attractive pull-out book for ages seven upwards incorporates models of nine types of ship, from the Greek trireme to the container ship and ports of today. Half the model ship is anchored to t...
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| DAVID BAKER Book Number: 89013 |
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America's Skylab Space Station was the first operational orbiting laboratory successfully occupied and revisited by astronauts, achieving the world's first scientific workshop maintained by separat...
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| RICHARD HUMPHREYS Book Number: 88797 |
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Humphreys was a crew member on the Polaris nuclear submarine HMS Resolution from 1985 to 1990 and this memoir starts with his first gruelling training at HMS Raleigh on the banks of the Tamar, foll...
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| RICK BROADBENT Book Number: 89376 |
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The Isle of Man Tourist Trophy Races: "They don't pay to see us race, they pay to see us die". Even the great Barry Sheene, who spent an entire career riding at - and frequently beyond - the edge, ...
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| IGLOO BOOKS Book Number: 89603 |
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A charming publication packed with archive photographs, beautiful full page colour illustrations and photographs, engravings such as the Scottish engineer and inventor James Watt as a young boy sit...
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| DWIGHT JON ZIMMERMAN Book Number: 89885 |
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An actor, motorcycle and automobile racer, and all-round petrol head, Hollywood's sexiest leading actor Steve McQueen rose from hardscrabble circumstances to become one of the most famous movie sta...
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| STEPHEN WOOLFORD & CARL WARNER Book Number: 89899 |
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Watching birds has always made man eager to take to the skies and here is a superb visual survey from the Montgolfier Brothers who experimented with hot air-filled silk bags, 'The father of aviatio...
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| IRIS VOLANT & JAROM VOGEL Book Number: 89849 |
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With dedication page, a big beautiful picture book with full page colour artworks everyone will love. Well written and beautifully illustrated, from the haunting Viking longships to Native America...
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| ULI CLOESEN Book Number: 89984 |
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The author's fascination with customised bikes started when a Norton Commando overtook his parents' car on a motorway and continued during his travels in India when the sight of Royal Enfield Bulle...
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| DAVID GLADWIN Book Number: 89986 |
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This lively and idiosyncratic history of the charabanc or pleasure-bus takes the story to the end of World War II with archive photos, timetables, magazine articles, cartoons, advertisements, anecd...
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| HOWARD PILTZ Book Number: 89991 |
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The author's two passions, for narrow-gauge railways and stamp-collecting, makes this book a revelation and a delight to read. Both hobbies lead him all over the world as he chases stamps ranging ...
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| NICK HEWITT Book Number: 90112 |
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Operation Overlord, or D-Day, as we usually call it, began on 6 June 1944 and was the largest amphibious assault in history, the turning point of WWII. The Allied victory it enabled owed much to th...
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| DAVID ROBERTS Book Number: 90140 |
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We absolutely love this one! Simply put, here are 127 mostly colour shots of the world's biggest names in music from the 50s to the present day with cars they have either owned, borrowed, wrecked o...
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| JOSH SIMS Book Number: 90145 |
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From 1916, scooters zipped onto the streets. The aviation industry developed this transport to be genuinely innovative by having a step-through body, unlike motorbikes. Learn how, during WWII, Volu...
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| MIKE SMYLIE Book Number: 90049 |
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Sub-titled ' The Fishing Industry Through Time', here is a fascinating selection of photographs showing the changing and developing harbours. Since the 1970s the fishing industry has been under pr...
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| PATRICK BISHOP Book Number: 90512 |
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Written in celebration of the RAF for its 2018 centenary, this book recounts the exploits of the service at the highest point of its reputation during World War II. The British army had been defeat...
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| MATTHEW WHARMBY Book Number: 90676 |
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The Leyland National Bus in London Service satisfied LT single-deck needs for a decade and a half, often standing in for double-deckers when needed. It went on to help hold the fort during the rou...
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| HANS SILVESTER Book Number: 90641 |
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Up, up and away with these beautiful colourful kites shaped in segmented fierce tigers, dragonflies, butterflies, birds. The first kites appeared in China in the 4th century BC and these real and ...
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| DEREK HAYES Book Number: 90665 |
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A big, splendid picture book packed with antique maps, colour images of rolling stock and engines, replicas and a terrific explanation of iron rails and plateways and beyond. We visit the Peak For...
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| SAM ROBERTS Book Number: 90574 |
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On February 2nd 1913, the doors to Grand Central Terminal officially opened to the public and immediately it became one of the most beautiful and recognisable Manhattan landmarks. In this celebrat...
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| FRED KERR Book Number: 90344 |
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Superlative railway photographer Fred Kerr directs his lens towards the early days of diesel, when preservation was focused on steam and only a discerning few realised that prototypes such as the D...
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| MALCOLM WRIGHT Book Number: 90345 |
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Destroyers, frigates, escorts, minesweepers, coastal warfare craft, submarines and auxiliaries, the book covers ships and cruisers, type by type and class by class, to provide a detailed and easy-t...
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| KEITH LANGSTON Book Number: 90346 |
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Locomotive names have been inspired by a wide variety of topics and those connected with the military have figured prominently. This publication highlights steam locomotives originally built or de...
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| ERIC BOTTOMLEY Book Number: 90362 |
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Transport artist Eric Bottomley specialises in nostalgic scenes reconstructed from old photos and drawings. The railway paintings in this book mainly depict the last 20 years of steam in Britain, b...
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| DAVID MAIDMENT Book Number: 90386 |
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Southern Maunsell Moguls and Tank Engines describes the conception, design and construction of the two-and three cylinder 2-6-0's initially the 'Ns' constructed at the end of WWI, many a government...
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| FRED KERR Book Number: 90389 |
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When the steam era ended on 11 August 1968, a final special train ran from Liverpool to Carlisle via Manchester, Bolton, Hellifield and along the iconic Settle to Carlisle route over the Ribblehead...
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