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  • Where's Sharawrah?: A Truck Driver's Adventure Across the Arabian Desert

    by Gordon Pearce ...
    Three articulated trucks load in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: two Volvo 4X2 European road artics and a Mercedes 6X6 desert artic. Their destination is Sharawrah, somewhere south of The Empty Quarter. Seven days to travel a thousand kilometers, a third of which are open desert. Seven days that will turn into seventy.... This is the true story of Gordon Pearce, an English truck driver determined to get the ... Read more

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    Ghost Rail Lines in Ontario

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    Explore Ontario's forgotten rail lines and experience the legacy and lore of this the vital railway era of Ontario's history. At its peak between 1880 and the 1920s, Ontario was criss-crossed by more than 20,000 kilometres of rail trackage. Today , only a fraction remains. Yet trains once hauled everything from strawberries to grain, cans of milk and even eels. Villagers depended on trains to ... Read more

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  • Fifty Chairs that Changed the World

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    by DESIGN MUSEUM ENTERPRISE LTD ...
    Series series Design Museum Fifty
    Everything around us is designed and the word 'design' has become part of our everyday experience. But how much do we know about it? Fifty Chairs That Changed the World imparts that knowledge listing the top 50 chairs that have made a substantial impact in the world of British design today. From Thonet's 1870 Side Chair to Konstantin Grcic's Chair_One, each entry offers a short appraisal to ... Read more

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  • Ridin' the Wind

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    Ridin the Wind is 40 stories of bikers and their life style. You will ride a low rider across the country, ride with the Grim Reaper and you will race the devil. Youll freeze in Jersey, sweat in Georgia and see gray dogs in Arizona. Youll spend time in bars, diners, pizza joints and bike shops. And youll do plenty of riding. Short rides and all day rides. Along the way youll meet old friends, make ... Read more

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  • Grand Prix Motorcycle Racers

    The American Heroes

    by Norm DeWitt ...
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  • HCB Angus Fire Engine Builders

    by Aidan Fisher ...
    HCB Angus produced 6,500 fire engines for fire services from across the UK and all over the world at their Southampton factory. The author discusses the history of the company and its forebears from their first involvement with building fire engines in 1933 until the completion of the last orders before closure on 24 June 1994. Orders came in from fire services from Pakistan to the Falkland ... Read more

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    Riding the Rails Again

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    Relive the glory years of American railroadingReturn to an era when passenger trains represented the height of luxury and riding the rails was the only way to travel. Classic Railroad Advertising covers nearly a century of memories - of powerful steam locomotives and elegant streamliners, of the brute force of diesel power and the patriotic effort to keep America on the move during a tumultuous ... Read more

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  • Postcards from the Edge

    Remote British Lighthouses in Vintage Postcards

    by Christopher P. Nicholson ...
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    Edited by Elspeth Frew, Leanne White ...
    Series series Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
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  • Isle of Man Transport: A Colour Journey in Time

    Steam Railways, Ships, and Road Services Buses

    by Martin Jenkins, Charles Roberts ...
    This stunning selection of color views, dating from the period 1953-1980, includes most of the vessels operated during this period by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company and The Ramsey Steamship Company. Passenger boats and freighters are seen at ports on the island and on the mainland. There is comprehensive coverage of the Peel, Ramsey and Port Erin lines operated by the Isle of Man Railway ... Read more

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