Category: Transport
Rails Around the World is a visually glorious history depicting trains and locomotives at work in scenic locations throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.
Category: Transport
No symbol better conveys the intrepid spirit of Australia than the flying kangaroo. Whether it's glimpsed on a red-eye flight to an interstate business meeting, before leaving for adventure or holidays, or when longing to return home, that sweep of red defines air travel in Australia. Qantas has always ...Show more
Category: Transport
If you are passionate about steam locomotives, or know someone who is, then Steam Australia is the perfect companion. Tim Fischer takes readers into the fascinating and grand story of steam transportation over ten vital decades of transformation in Australia's history. This book is so much more than a h ...Show more
Category: Transport | Series: Complete Book Ser.
The Complete Book of Classic John Deere Tractors explores the range of iconic "green tractors" with which Illinois-based John Deere has become one of the world's most recognizable brands. Part of Motorbooks' Complete Book series, this fact-packed volume takes you through dozens of John Deere farm models ...Show more
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From being something of an oddity rarely seen on our roads, three-wheeled vehicles have truly come of age in recent years. They have become the recreational vehicle of choice for many men and women across Australia and New Zealand. The reasons for their increasing popularity? The feeling of the wind in ...Show more
Category: Transport
This book brings together a unique collection of photos, sketches and accounts of the life of river communities. It is not just a book for riverboat enthusiasts, it is for anyone with an interest in social history.
Category: Transport
If Holden Days was all in pictures with brief captions, it would still be a book to cherish, but Don Loffler uses individual memories to create a rich social history of Australia from 1948 right through until now as Holden owners relive their stories.
Category: Transport
35 years of oval track imagery from the lens of Tony Loxley
Category: Transport
Wheels of history: From the Model T and DB5 to the VW Beetle and the Hummer Henry Fordjump-started the age of the automobile with the first assembly-line car in 1908: theModel T. Over the next century the automobile evolved from chugging workhorse to tail fin era showboat to sleek status symbol, complet ...Show more
Category: Transport
From the early years of steam power to today's awe-inspiring high-speed passenger trains, this book spans nearly two centuries of locomotive history. It covers the first designs of the 1830s, early North American freight trains, the golden age of railways from 1900-1950, the crossover from steam power t ...Show more
Category: Transport
Jonathan Glancey is a lifelong steam enthusiast who has oiled, fired and driven, as well as watched and listened to, steam locomotives around the world. In Giants of Steam, he turns his enthusiastic and knowledgeable attention to the thrilling story of the last, and greatest, generation of steam railway ...Show more
Category: Transport
Australia has some of the world's largest and most labour-efficient farms, and tractors are an essential part of their operations. This title documents the development of the indigenous tractor industry, from the McDonald Imperial of 1909 to cane, olive and grape harvesters.
