Search results for “[subject: transportation]”

• Author(s): Virginia C. Johnson • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: GeneralTravel in old Virginia was many things, but it was never dull. Stagecoaches were the primary means of transport, carrying mail as well ...

• Author(s): Jon Axline • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MTDrives this breathtaking did not come easy. Cruising down Montana's scenic highways, it...

• Author(s): Charles Woodley • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Aviation - HistoryFlying Boats: Air Travel in the Golden Age sets out to do justice to a time of glamorous, unhurried air travel, unrecognisable t...

• Author(s): Eric Sawford • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Automotive - HistorySteam-driven locomotives played a major role in the 19th century where they took over the heavy haulage tasks from horses and ush...

• Author(s): Todd Defeo • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Railroads - HistoryThe Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville Railroad is a perfect example of rail lines in the mid-nineteenth century. Chartered in 18...

• Author(s): Joan Kavanagh • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Australia & New Zealand - GeneralOn 2 September 1845, the convict ship Tasmania left Kingstown Harbour for Van Diemen's Land with 138 female con...

• Author(s): Simon Mills • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - HistoryDespite being the largest of the legendary Olympic-class trio, Britannic is often overlooked in comparison to Olympi...

• Author(s): John Parsons • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Railroads - HistoryThe West Somerset Railway opened in 1862, linking Taunton, Watchet, and Minehead. Popular with tourists traveling the Somerset coa...

• Author(s): Patrick Mylon • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - HistoryWhite Star Line was originally founded in Liverpool in 1845 for travel to Australia but was eventually purchased b...

• Author(s): Mark Berry • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - HistoryExplore the history of ocean liners through the objects that bring them to life.Liners represented the ambitions of t...

• Author(s): Charles Woodley • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Aviation - HistoryThe Gatwick story really began when two young men purchased a plot of land near Gatwick Racecourse to develop as a flying field....

• Author(s): Chuck Cecil • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Railroads - HistoryPandemonium wafted up out of Deadwood Gulch whenever bellowing, muddy oxen teams led wagons rattling into town. For a decade, thous...

• Author(s): John Walter • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Railroads - HistoryWith the nineteenth-century enthusiasm for railways came a demand for everfaster locomotives that could haul greater loads than the...

• Author(s): David Gero • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Aviation - HistoryFlying as an airline passenger is, statistically, one of the safest forms of travel. Even so, the history of civil aviation is litter...

• Author(s): Geoff Body • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Railroads - HistoryThe formative years of Britain's railway network produced a host of ideas, activities and characters, quite a few of which now seem ...

• Author(s): Kent Layton • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - History'Mauretania was a ship with a fighting heart. First and foremost, she was not just a great and successful liner. She...

• Author(s): Andrew Britton • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - HistoryA colorful illustrated history celebrating 60 years of the SS United StatesComplete with deck plans, newspaper co...

• Author(s): Mike Carver • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Automotive - GeneralThis book tells the story of the constituent parts of British Leyland, later Rover Group, from the merger in 1968 to the end of pr...

• Author(s): J. Kent Layton • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - History'An evocative and exciting collection of rare and unusual images of the vessel known as "the ship beautiful".' - ...

• Author(s): Bruce Beveridge • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - HistoryThe story of the worldʼs most famous liner, told through a fascinating selection of important objects Showcasin...

• Author(s): Norman Ferguson • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Aviation - HistoryThis playful history looks back at the story of flight since the first patient-to-be jumped from a castle parapet to the joy tha...

• Author(s): William Miller • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - HistoryCompleted in the early 1960s, the France was the last of the great French Line passenger ships on the celebrated ...

• Author(s): Eric Sauder • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - HistoryLost to a German torpedo on May 7, 1915, Cunard's RMS Lusitania captured the world's imagination when she entered se...

• Author(s): Keith McCloskey • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Aviation - CommercialCONSPIRACY theories of sabotage, murder and even UFOs flourish around the greatest unsolved mysteries of aviation from the tw...

• Author(s): Patrick Mylon • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - HistoryDuring the history of the White Star Line there were two international disputes - the Boer Wars and the First Worl...

• Author(s): Alan Anderson • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Automotive - History This new book by motoring journalist Alan Anderson follows on from Going Classic, to explore the world of historic motorsport a...

• Author(s): Bruce Beveridge • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - HistoryThe largest, most luxurious ship in the world, lost on her maiden voyage after colliding with an iceberg in mid-...

• Author(s): Sally Smith • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: GeneralSally Smith presents the extraordinary stories of the real women pioneers in global circumnavigation; travelling right around the world by vari...

• Author(s): Paul Brown • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - GeneralFrom muddy creek to naval-industrial powerhouse; from constructing wooden walls to building Dreadnoughts; from mainta...

• Author(s): Michael C. Tarver • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - HistorySS Terra Nova was most famous for being the vessel to carry the ill-fated 1910 polar expedition led by Robert ...

• Author(s): Tanya Jackson • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Railroads - HistoryBritish Rail is a contentious company, as controversial as Dr Beeching and his axe. However, this examination of BR's passenger s...

• Author(s): Nick Evans • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: Automotive - HistoryPetrol stations have been with us for 100 years. They have become etched on countless rural and industrial landscapes, sometimes bl...