Transportation
Explore the best books on transportation, featuring engaging reads on buses, trains, and cars for all ages, including top picks for preschoolers and captivating picture books. Find your next favorite transportation book at our online bookstore, showcasing bestsellers and highly recommended reads.
-
Killer TrucksWhy did trucking go from the safest to the unsafest overnight? Why did the truckers go from upper middle class to lower middle class? Why did over-the-road drivers go from the knights of the road, to minimum-wage, aggressive bullies? This book explains it all....
- $36.13 AUD
- $36.13 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Can You Find It? Cars and Trucks on the RoadA colorful traffic jam's worth of things to count and find! This charming and witty "can-you-find-it?" large-format board book follows one purple car from road to road while an increasing number of other vehicles joins it. Each spread also features a certain number of...
- $29.03 AUD
- $29.03 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Open Skies: My Life as Afghanistan's First Female Pilot"As a young Afghan woman who dreamed of becoming an air force pilot, Niloofar Rahmani confronted far more than technical challenges; she faced the opprobrium of an entire society." --Pamela Constable, author of Playing with Fire and former Kabul and Islamabad bureau chief for...
- $65.65 AUD
- $65.65 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Lost Miniature RailwaysThe simple and lightweight construction, with minimal land requirements, means that miniature railways can be quite ephemeral in nature. The author, a much published writer on the miniature railway scene, both in the UK and overseas, has put together this collection of 37 miniature...
- $45.18 AUD
- $45.18 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Transportation: From Then to NowThere was no looking back after the wheel was invented. It allowed people to build carts to transport their goods and, eventually, those carts turned into means of transportation for people. But there were also horses, and donkeys, and bullocks for transporting goods and...
- $40.75 AUD
- $40.75 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Construction ZooAnimals and trucks, two by two--it's party time at the Construction Zoo!It's a quiet morning at the zoo, until some strange new creatures roll in--trucks and bulldozers and wrecking balls, tumbling, digging, roaring alongside the animals. Giraffe and rhino, monkeys and tigers, watching and...
- $18.10 AUD
- $18.10 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Turbo Racers: Escape VelocityThe Fast and the Furious meets Transformers in the second book of this high-stakes series about twelve-year-old Mace Blazer, who pilots state-of-the-art vehicles that transform seamlessly to race on the road, in the air, and even underwater. Mace Blazer is the world's hottest TURBOnaut....
- $18.10 AUD
- $18.10 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
How to Build Affordable Hot Rods: Best Options for Your BudgetLearn how to build an affordable hot rod following the advice of the masters!In How to Build Affordable Hot Rods, author and lifelong hot rod aficionado Tony Thacker takes you through the process of building a hot rod on a budget. Drawing on his...
- $83.68 AUD
- $83.68 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Rails Around the World: Two Centuries of Trains and LocomotivesIn this visually glorious chronological history, prolific railroad historian and photographer Brian Solomon curates a selection of the world's most significant trains and locomotives over the last two centuries. Hop aboard to see trains and locomotives at work in scenic locations throughout North America,...
- $90.60 AUD
- $90.60 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Ride Out!: Motorcycle Road Trips and AdventuresRide Out shines a light on the classic and most inspiring riding landscapes, from never-ending meandering mountain passes to routes along the Mediterranean Sea. A motorcycle rider is always on the hunt-- for the perfect curve, the perfect scenery, the perfect flow. Pack light,...
- $135.90 AUD
- $135.90 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Citroen Traction Avant: In UniformBuilt in 1934, Andr Citroen's legendary car had a rich and stunning career due to the events which plunged the world into war five years later. Thousands of them joined the French Army during the Phoney War then went through the trials and tribulations...
- $145.35 AUD
- $145.35 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Steam & Diesel Locomotives Servicing Terminals: Layout Design & PlanningThis all-new book by Tony Koester explains how steam, diesel, and electric servicing facilities work, with details on the processes and equipment that can be replicated on model railroad layouts. The book includes: An overview of locomotive maintenance. Model railroad track plans and modeling...
- $49.80 AUD
- $49.80 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
How to Rebuild the Big-Block ChevroletThe photos in this edition are black and white.The Mark IV Chevrolet big-block, made from 1965 to 1976, produced legendary performance and is one of the greatest big-blocks of all time. This design was a giant performance leap ahead of the old Chevy wedge...
- $84.43 AUD
- $84.43 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
You Got This Ft. Travis PastranaMeet the amazing athletes of Nitro Circus and find out just what inspires them to be the best! Appropriate for grades 2-4, this Level 3 Reader introduces Nitro Circus founder and award-winning athlete Travis Pastrana. Featuring his life-long love of motocross, favorite achievements, and...
- $11.30 AUD
- $11.30 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Good Night DozersGood Night Bulldozers features crawlers, wheeled dozers, construction sites, mines, rock quarries, and construction operators. Also included are loaders, diggers, graders, off-highway trucks, cranes, dump trucks, steamrollers, and more. Young construction buffs will squeal with delight as they ride their favorite bulldozers and other...
- $26.28 AUD
- $26.28 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
FIAT 850, 850S, 850S COUPE, 850S SPECIAL, 850S SPYDER, 850 SPORT 903cc SEAT 850 1964-1974 OWNERS WORKSHOP MANUALAs a service to the classic car enthusiast VelocePress, in close cooperation with Brooklands Books Ltd., has brought this and other repair manuals previously published as part of the Autobook - Autopress Owners Workshop Manual Series back into print. This series of manuals is...
- $125.33 AUD
- $125.33 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Flying Deep: Climb Inside Deep-Sea Submersible AlvinClimb aboard Alvin, the famous deep-sea submersible credited with helping to find the Titanic, and take a trip two miles down to the bottom of the ocean. Experience a day in the life of an Alvin pilot and join scientists at the seafloor to...
- $21.10 AUD
- $21.10 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Titanic Survivor: The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic DisastersViolet Jessop's life is an inspiring story of survival. Born in 1887 in Argentina, the eldest child of Irish immigrants, at the age of 21 she became the breadwinner for her widowed mother and five siblings when she commenced a career as a stewardess...
- $40.95 AUD
- $40.95 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Lake George Shipwrecks and Sunken HistoryLake George is bustling with boaters, swimmers, fishermen and many others, enjoying its scenic, quintessentially Adirondack shores. But the depths below hide a whole other world--one of shipwrecks and lost history. Entombed are remnants of Lake George's important naval heritage, such as the legendary...
- $76.98 AUD
- $76.98 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Beep Beep Beep Time for Sleep!From the author of Dinosaurs Love Underpants comes a charming picture book that follows a group of tired trucks and machines as they get ready for bedtime after a long day at the building site. "Beep, beep, beep!" called the sleepy machines after a...
- $47.53 AUD
- $47.53 AUD
- Unit price
- per
