Transport: general interest

Everything around us is designed and the word 'design' has become part of our everyday experience.

Everything around us is designed and the word 'design' has become part of our everyday experience.

Sources are eclectic, results mixed, but one thing is certain: car design is being forced up an ever tightening spiral of creativity.

What if you can't stand where you are because there's nothing there?

A guide to places to visit, history and wildlife along the Liverpool, Wirral and Cheshire shores of the Mersey EstuaryStretching for around thirty miles to the coast, the Mersey Estuary is perhaps best known for Liverpool s spectacular waterfront and the Mersey Ferry.

The start of a gripping, page-turning, cosy historical murder mystery from Kelly Oliver'A fun, mix of whodunnit and thriller set amid American high society' T.

The Tiger Moth is one of the major aviation success stories in the history of British aviation.

This is the personal account of an exceptional Spitfire test pilot and RAF and Fleet Air Arm fighter pilot.

This is the personal account of an exceptional Spitfire test pilot and RAF and Fleet Air Arm fighter pilot.

In the 1980s the Oxford Publishing Company produced an amalgam of two books written by former Branksome fireman Peter Smith entitled Mendips Engineman and Footplate over the Mendips.

In the 1980s the Oxford Publishing Company produced an amalgam of two books written by former Branksome fireman Peter Smith entitled Mendips Engineman and Footplate over the Mendips.

When Harold Gasson first put pen to paper more than forty years ago, it was at a time when there was a growing resurgence of interest in the steam railway.

The Tiger Moth is one of the major aviation success stories in the history of British aviation.

With a foreword by Carl FogartyJoey Dunlop's story is one of towering triumphs and desperate tragedies in almost equal measure.

Why has car society proven so durable, even in the face of mounting environmental and economic crises?

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Through his work in motion pictures, Lloyd Bridges appreciated the impact of skin diving upon this medium and presented an exciting picture of future possibilities in underwater photography.

IN THESE PAGES, the reader will meet one of America's foremost seafaring men and explorers.

Boys and girls all over the world know the name of Richard Halliburton.

Boys and girls all over the world know the name of Richard Halliburton.

It was nine long years since the disappearance of Mallory and Irvine on the north face of Mount Everest.

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From time immemorial man has pursued the whale.

THE ROYAL ROAD TO ROMANCE in which a gay young romanticist goes laughing and beating and fighting his vagabond way into the glamorous corners of the world.

THEY FLEW THROUGH THE AIR WITH GREATEST OF EASERichard Halliburton can be counted on to lead his readers into strange places, into hilarious difficulties, into new appreciations of history and romance-and never to qualify his outrageous philosophy of reckless living with a single sober moral.

The story of some of Earl Denman's mountaineering exploits to Africa, culminating in his journey in 1947 through Tibet to Everest with Tenzing Norgay (later to become one of the first two individuals known to reach the summit of Mount Everest) is here told for the first time.

Seven League Boots, which was first published in 1935 and his fifth and final book, details American adventurer Richard Halliburton's epic adventures in a variety of remote places.

In late March of 1958 four men set sail in a thirty-foot ketch, the Golden Rule, for the nuclear-bomb-testing area in the Marshall Islands.

First published in 1930, this is the personal adventure narrative of Henri de Monfreid-nobleman, writer, adventurer and inspiration for the swashbuckling gun runner in the Adventures of Tintin.

The story of Frank Whittle RAF pilot, mathematician of genius, inventor of the jet engine and British hero.

The story of an engineering marvel of the twenty-first century, from Britain's bestselling railway writer.

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When, during the Pyrenean stages of the 1998 Tour de France, a journalist asked Marco Pantani why he rode so fast in the mountains, the elfin Italian, unmistakeable in the bandanna and hooped ear-rings that played up to his "e;Pirate"e; nickname, replied: "e;To shorten my agony.

The airline industry is fundamental to the workings of the global economy.

The airline industry is fundamental to the workings of the global economy.

I can't think of anywhere I'd less like to be than in a car.

First published in 1951, this is the autobiography of Admiral Lord Mountevans, and it is indeed a tale of high spirits.

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