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.
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A Good and Favorable Wind: The Unusual Story Of A Submarine Under Sail And Its Cautionary Lessons For The Modern NavySubmarine drama, maritime tragedy, innovation, unique circumstances, resilience in adversity, leadership, teamwork, wisdom and personal growth-this book has it all. In May 1921 the submarine R-14 departs Pearl Harbor on an emergency mission to search for the US navy ship Conestoga, lost at sea...
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Porsche 911 Turbo SAuthor: Joanne MatternPublisher: Bigfoot BooksPublished: 10/01/2022Pages: 32Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.60w x 0.30dISBN: 9781645196136
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Is That My Boat?Go on a colorful journey as a child watches the waves for their favorite boat. Spot ferry boats, sailboats, tall sailing ships, and more while you spot the playful periscope on each page. Finally, delight in the arrival of a submarine as families celebrate...
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The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of AmericaFrom acclaimed historian and biographer Rebecca Fraser comes a vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world. "There is nothing sleep-inducing about the chronicle crafted by Ms. Fraser...There is more to...
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Le Monde Des Voitures Pour Enfants: Livre coloré pour enfants, logos de marques automobiles avec de belles images de voitures du monde entier, apprentLes enfants adorent les voitures, surtout leurs logos !Découvrez le monde merveilleux des voitures avec les logos des constructeurs automobiles les plus populaires du monde entier ! D'Alfa Romeo à Volvo, ce simple livret contient 48 des constructeurs automobiles les plus populaires, leurs logos...
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Taking Flight with Captain Mama/Despegando con Capitán Mamá: 3rd in an award-winning, bilingual English & Spanish children's aviation picture book serIn the third book of the award-winning, bilingual, Captain Mama aviation series, Marco narrates as he and his classmates take flight on the KC-135R aerial refueling tanker during a class field trip. The students and teachers receive a pre-mission briefing and watch what each...
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Thirty Wooden Boats: A Second Catalog of Building PlansThe 30 designs include: 6 powerboats, 6 daysailers, 11 cruising boats. Also included is an article by designer Joel White on understanding boat plans.Author: Wooden Boat Magazine, Woodenboat MagazinePublisher: Wooden Boat PublicationsPublished: 10/01/1988Pages: 78Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 10.85h x 8.18w x 0.25dISBN: 9780937822159
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Physics for Gearheads: An Introduction to Vehicle Dynamics, Energy, and Power - With Examples from Motorsports"Bentley Stock No. GEBP. Mfg. code: GEBP-01-1503"--Title page verso.Author: Randy BeikmannPublisher: Bentley PublishersPublished: 03/01/2015Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 3.05lbsSize: 9.90h x 7.80w x 1.10dISBN: 9780837616155
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PlanesA high-flying board book introducing all kinds of planes--from pontoons and propellers to the space shuttle! From early attempts at flight through modern jumbo jets, this board book, jam packed with more than 30 flying machines, will soar into the hands of your little...
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The Alaska Bush Pilot Chronicles: More Adventures and Misadventures from the Big EmptyReaders of Flying the Alaska Wild marveled at Mort Mason's true tales of braving the elements at the extremes in a Piper Super Cub. But the bush pilot, adventurer, and raconteur was just beginning, and in this book he revisits his most memorable moments...
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Exotic CarsThese are the cars so fast and powerful, so superior in design and performance, that they could only be called supercars. Since legendary British motor journalist L. J. K. Setright christened the first, the Lamborghini Miura, in a review, others have followed from the...
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101 Performance Projects for Your BMW 3 Series 1982-2000Created with the weekend mechanic in mind, this extensively illustrated manual features 101 projects that will help you maintain, restore, modify, and enhance your 3 Series sedan. Have you ever wanted to do your own maintenance and performance upgrades on your BMW 3 Series,...
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Super SubmarinesSuper Submarines follows the animal crew as they become sailors. Sink below the waves with the crew, explore the ocean depths, and learn how to navigate with sonar Each page is filled with details that machine-mad kids will love: periscopes, submersibles, deepsea creatures, and...
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David Buick's Marvelous Motor Car: The men and the automobile that launched General MotorsDavid Buick led a team that created gasoline engines for motor cars that were truly remarkable. They were powerful, durable and efficient engines that proved formidable on race tracks and in hill climbs. And, more important, those engines provided the power to negotiate the...
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Curious George on the Go!Ready, set, go Curious George is on the go in this new concept board book for toddlers. The book includes a double-sided George attached to a ribbon that can be slipped in and out of pockets that appear on each spread. Each pocket puts...
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Handbook of Knotting and SplicingGenerations of scouts and sailors have learned their lore from this classic reference by a master craftsman. Editor Paul N. Hasluck was a renowned contributor to numerous technical journals as well as the author of several books on crafts and antiques. His clearly written...
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Tap-TapSasifi longs to ride a tap-tap, a truck that carries passengers and their belongings in rural Haiti.Author: Karen Lynn WilliamsPublisher: Clarion BooksPublished: 09/18/1995Pages: 48Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.80h x 6.60w x 0.40dISBN: 9780395720868Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 3.3Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz #/Name:...
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Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can DoIn the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls and immediately dispatched a patrol boat. Within an hour, the Coast Guard boat was...
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The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn: An Untold Story of the American RevolutionThe most horrific struggle of the American Revolution occurred just 100 yards off New York, where more men died aboard a rotting prison ship than were lost to combat during the entirety of the war.Moored off the coast of Brooklyn until the end of...
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Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American CityThe fight for the future of the city street between pedestrians, street railways, and promoters of the automobile between 1915 and 1930.Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. By 1930,...
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