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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World's Fastest TrainsThis book introduces readers to the world's fastest trains, highlighting record-setting trains from the past, as well as the technology and innovations that helped them achieve those speeds. Short paragraphs of easy-to-read text are paired with plenty of colorful photos to make reading engaging...
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Avro 748The vision of Alliott Verdon Roe and his team in designing and building the 748 resulted in a highly successful commercial airliner, that since the 1960s has been responsible for opening new air routes in many corners of the world. Many of the airstrips...
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The Scooter Bible: The Ultimate History and EncyclopediaThe Scooter Bible is an entertaining, colorful, and authoritative history of the little motorbikes that could. Beginning with the first motor scooter in 1902, Eric Dregni is your guide to everything from the postwar American scooter boom to the golden age of Italian and...
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Superfinds: A Truly Unique Selection of Previously Unseen Photographs of Important Historic Cars as Found in the 1960s and 1970sThis book is unique. It is a compendium of wonderful automotive treasure, as discovered. With the passage of time all cars became worthless and unloved, no matter how eminent. Racing cars inevitably became uncompetitive and redundant. Many vehicles passed into scrapyards, the motoring equivalent...
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Corvette: 1963-1967Corvette: 1963 to 1967 (Third Edition) reveals many events in the manufacture of 1963 - 1967 Corvette that the author took from his personal files. The author presents his personal experience working in the Chevrolet St. Louis Assembly plant and as liaison between Chevrolet...
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My First Book of Things That Go! in Cantonese & English: A Cantonese-English Picture BookMy First Book of Things That Go in Cantonese & English is unique in its focus on spoken Cantonese, not formal written Chinese. This book introduces Cantonese language to preschool children, and is ideal for families or caregivers who may not be fully fluent...
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Build!For all young truck lovers and fans of books like Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site! Watch a series of amazing construction vehicles--a dump truck, a bulldozer, and many others--build a building unlike any other. Then delight in the surprise ending, where young readers and listeners...
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The Ducati 860, 900 and Mille BibleThe bevel-drive 860 and 900 was one of the most significant motorcycles of the late 1970s, providing a unique combination of power and handling that was unequalled by other motorcycles at the time. When Italian car stylist Giorgetto Giugiaro penned the 860GT in 1973,...
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Latoya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family in Three Acts"A marriage of art and activism, the artist's searing photographs reveal the human toll of economic injustice." -New York TimesLaToya Ruby Frazier's Flint Is Family in Three Acts chronicles the ongoing manmade water crisis in Flint, Michigan, from the perspective of those who live...
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The Complete Book of Classic Ford Tractors: Every Model 1917-1996Here's your beautifully photographed one-stop source for everything you ever wanted to know about the immensely popular classic Ford tractors. First manufactured in 1917, Ford tractors (initially sold under the Fordson name, a contraction of Henry Ford & Son) were, thanks to mass production,...
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The Sierra Leone Government Railway: From Creation to PreservationA 120 page hardback illustrated album by Helen Ashby, the Chair of the Friends of the Sierra Leone National Railway Museum, showcasing this idiosyncratic African narrow gauge system through all the eras of its operation. See the early optimism subside to a simple aspiration...
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A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes NextFrom the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses, an eye-opening road trip through 5,500 years of humans on the go, revealing how transportation inevitably shapes civilization. Tom Standage's fleet-footed and surprising global histories have delighted readers and cemented his...
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The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest"An outstanding book." --The Wall Street Journal * "Gripping at every turn." --Outside * "A gem of a book." --The Guardian * "A hell of a ride." --The Times (London) An extraordinary true story about one man's attempt to salve the wounds of war...
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Big Machines That BuildThis fun book provides a simple explanation of cranes, construction trucks, and other machines that build. Labeled photos and a photo glossary help make the text engaging and easy to read.Author: Brienna RossiterPublisher: Focus ReadersPublished: 01/01/2021Pages: 16Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.60h x 6.60w x...
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From Prison To The Car Hauling Game: The Financial Freedom and Secure Income of Over the Road Trucking and Car Transport BusinessIf You're Looking for a Way to Have a Consistent, Steady Flow of Income but Have Been Charged With a Felony, Keep Reading! - A Felon's Guide to Starting Their Own Successful BusinessLooking for a stable source of income that doesn't involve working on...
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Ready Steady RaceA bouncy, rhythmic story, packed with noises to shout out loud - essential for young vehicle lovers With art by the bestselling illustrator of How to Grow a Dinosaur. Welcome, welcome, champion racers, Mighty motors, speedy chasers. Who will win this fast and furious...
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Corvette: Chevrolet's SupercarThe world's fascination with the Chevrolet Corvette shows no sign of letting up, nearly 70 years after its launch. Witness the complete history of America's original sports car, right up to the much-buzzed-about mid-engined Stingray supercar released in 2019. Through hundreds of rare and...
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Off Roading Log Book: Back Roads Adventure 4-Wheel Drive Trails Hitting The Trails Desert Byways Notebook Racing Vehicle EngineeringYou Love Back Road Adventures 8 X 10 Inches110 PagesHow to Use this Off Roading Adventure Log Book: The purpose of this Off Roading Notebook is to keep all your various backroads and off roading adventures organized in one easy to find spot. Here...
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Iron Women: The Ladies Who Helped Build the Railroad**2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Silver Winner for Western Non-Fiction** When the last spike was hammered into the steel track of the Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Point, Utah, Western Union lines sounded the glorious news of the railroad's completion from...
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Rolls-Royce Motor Cars: Making a LegendThe most prestigious motor car in the world. The true definition of luxuryA tour of the Rolls-Royce facility and a unique insight into the manufacturing processA stunning collection of cars from the earliest models to those of the modern dayA compendium of historical Rolls-Royce...
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