Transportation

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  1. Book ImageNormandie: France's Legendary Art Deco Ocean Liner

    John Maxtone-Graham

    A magnificent tribute to the illustrious and ill-fated steamship.More

  2. Book ImageRiding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and Books

    Ted Bishop

    "Part travelogue, part ode to his bike and part literary criticism...a memoir infused with joie de vivre."—Publishers WeeklyMore

  3. Book ImageThe Liner: Retrospective and Renaissance

    Philip Dawson

    A spectacularly illustrated account of the ocean liner's place in transportation and social history.More

  4. Book ImageDisaster at Sea: Shipwrecks, Storms, and Collisions on the Atlantic

    William H. Flayhart

    "Flayhart delivers a gripping chronicle of mishap and mayhem . . . filled with danger and heroism and rich with detail."—Sea PowerMore

  5. Book ImageWings: A History of Aviation from Kites to the Space Age

    Tom D. Crouch

    "A superb history of flying machines . . . the best one-volume analysis of the subject."—Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewMore

  6. Book ImageDown with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster

    Steven Biel

    An immensely readable, provocative, and entertaining exploration of the Titanic as cultural icon.More

  7. Book ImageThe Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright

    Tom D. Crouch

    The reissue of this definitive biography heralds the one-hundredth anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight.More

  8. Book ImageLusitania: Saga and Myth

    David Ramsay

    An objective and enthralling account of the sinking of the Lusitania, which unravels many of the myths and, for the first time, explains the true significance of that terrible disaster.More

  9. Book ImageA Dream of Wings: Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905

    Tom D. Crouch

    The story of a handful of talented American engineers and adventurers who labored to conquer gravity in a flying machine.More

  10. Book ImageChronicles of the Frigate Macedonian, 1809-1922

    James Tertius de Kay

    "History that reads like a historical novel."—New York Times Book Review. "Thoroughly delightful and informative."— Atlantic MonthlyMore

  11. Book ImageQE2: The Cunard Line Flagship, Queen Elizabeth II

    Ronald W. Warwick

    She is 963 feet long, weighs over 67,000 tons, has three swimming pools, 22 elevators, and a crew of 900. She can move through the water at over 35 miles per hour and is the last of the great transatlantic liners. Approaching her 30th birthday, she is a legend, the sole survivor of a bygone era, but she is thriving.More

  12. Book ImageCar: A Drama of the American Workplace

    Mary Walton

    "An enlightening peek at the inner workings of a large corporation trying to reinvent itself. . . . It's rare to find an auto book that explains the process of creating a car with so much color and detail."—Business Week (a Best Business Book of 1997)More

  13. Book ImageTitanica: The Disaster of the Century in Poetry, Song, and Prose

    Steven Biel

    In the ninety years since the Titanic sank, countless sermons and editorials, poems, songs and ads, socialists and chauvinists, Christians, reformers, anarchists, and pitchmen have drawn on the power of the century's worst disaster to move their audience.More

  14. Book ImageThe Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles

    Melissa Holbrook Pierson

    "This book, a polished, winding meditation on the theory and fractiousness of motorcycles, celebrates both their eccentric history and the wary pleasures of touring."—The New YorkerMore

  15. Book ImageThe Titanic Disaster: As Reported in the British National Press, April-July 1912

    Dave Bryceson

    The sinking of the Titanic, as the dramatic story unfolded in the British press.More

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