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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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| 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 |
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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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| 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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| 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 |
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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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| 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 |
Published price: £19.99
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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 |
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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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| GRAHAM GOODCHILD Book Number: 84790 |
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With large clear colourful diagrams with measurements, colour photographs of tracks and models, here is a comprehensive guide covering tools and adhesives, materials and techniques, trackwork and w...
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| D. J. SMITH Book Number: 85812 |
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Recalling the efforts of magnificent Shire horses and humble but hard-working Cobs or 'Vanners', this book is an evocation of state and civic dignity. Our super Shire handbook will assist the iden...
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| SIMON STEPHENS Book Number: 85831 |
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Curator of Ship Model and Boat Collections at the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich here in London, Simon Stephens begins this superb collection with a British turret-decked steamer in close-up...
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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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| ROBERT JEFFREY Book Number: 86027 |
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A voyage back into the history of the toll that the cruel sea has taken on seafarers around Scotland's coast, a story of heroism and disaster. Beneath our seas lie around 5,000 known wrecks, with ...
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| DAVID DOYLE Book Number: 86069 |
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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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| DAVID DOYLE Book Number: 86071 |
Published price: £22.95
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A visual history of the German Army's WWII light tank, and a companion to German Panzer I code 86070. A remarkable collection of over 200 colour and archive mono never-before-seen photographs from...
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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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