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Bike Snob Abroad
Strange Customs, Incredible Fiets, and the Quest for Cycling Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
In his new book, BikeSnobNYC reaches the final frontier of cycling: riding with the family. As his choice to take to the road with his toddler son in tow is met with bewilderment and disapproval from onlookers and the occasional motorist, he ponders why it's such a taboo. And what does it really mean...
Retirement Without Borders
How to Retire Abroad--in Mexico, France, Italy, Spain, Costa Rica, Panama, and Other Sunny, Foreign Places (And the Secret to Making It Happen Without Stress)
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Barry Golson knows all about retiring abroad -- he and his wife, Thia, have lived in six different countries. Now they choose expatriate-friendly locales around the world for their low cost and their high quality of living and explain how to investigate and settle in each country with minimum hassle...
Another Great Day at Sea
Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
From a writer “whose genre-jumping refusal to be pinned down [makes him] an exemplar of our era” (NPR), a new book that confirms his power to astound readers.
As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance...
by Carlos Caggiani
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2010
In the 60's, Carlos Caggiani traveled to 26 countries on an old motorcycle with hardly a penny to his name. He suffered famine, intense weather, was chased by the FBI, was shot at in Bolivia, and even survived a serious accident. The experiences in this book demonstrate a human being's tenacity and triumph in the face of adversity.
by Richard Keegan
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
The Iron Butt Rally, run every two years by the Iron Butt Association, is regarded as the ‘world’s toughest motorcycle Rally’, the Olympics of long-distance motorcycle-riding. Riders are given a long list of bonus locations; points are awarded for each bonus location ‘captured’, with higher...
by Tristan Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The author of The Incredible Voyage sets out on a “simply tremendous” and death-defying adventure sailing through the Arctic Ocean (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Retiring on a pension after being torpedoed in WWII, Tristan Jones embarks on a test of endurance that will last over two...
Héroes al volante
La F1 en México
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 17, 2015
**Frente al regreso de la Fórmula 1 en México Rosas, uno de los más populares historiadores de la actualidad, ofrece al lector un recuento histórico lleno de datos y anécdotas sobre los pasados premios realizados en México. **
Ésta es una historia de individuos comunes y corrientes...
by Sterling Hayden
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
At seventeen, he ran away to sea. By twenty-two, he was the captain of his own brigantine. Discovered by Hollywood, he acted in more than forty motion pictures including THE ASPHALT JUNGLE and DR. STRANGELOVE. He has had three wives, including the famous film star, Madeleine Carroll. During the war...
Trains, Culture, and Mobility
Riding the Rails
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
Trains, Culture and Mobility: Riding the Rails goes beyond textual representations of rail travel to engage an impressive range of political, sociological and urban theory. Taken together, these essays highlight the complexity of the modern experience of train mobility, and its salient relation to...
Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads
The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
A fascinating and atmospheric history of the transcontinental railroad—the nineteenth century’s greatest and most relentless feat of national expansion
Hear that Lonesome Whistle Blow unspools the history of the beginnings of the American railroad system. By the mid-nineteenth century,...
Hell on Wheels
Wicked Towns Along the Union Pacific Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Overnight settlements, better known as "Hell on Wheels," sprang up as the transcontinental railroad crossed Nebraska and Wyoming. They brought opportunity not only for legitimate business but also for gamblers, land speculators, prostitutes, and thugs. Dick Kreck tells their stories along...
by John Christopher
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
In addition to his high-profile railway lines, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was engineer to a number of minor and branch lines including those from Slough to Windsor, Didcot to Oxford and from there via the OWWW - generally known as the 'Old Worse & Worse' - across to Moreton, Evesham, Pershore and...
Bradshaw's Guide London to Birmingham
On Stephenson's Tracks - Volume 9
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
The London & Birmingham Railway was the first major line in Britain and it was the greatest achievement of its engineer, Robert Stephenson, the man who, together with his father George, had set the age of the railway in motion with their pioneering achievements. The route presented a number of...
Voyage of The Slave Ship
J.M.W. Turner's Masterpiece in Historical Context
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2014
Set against the backdrop of the Atlantic slave trade, this book traces the development, exhibition and final disposition of one of J.M.W. Turner’s greatest and most memorable paintings. Queen Victoria’s reign (1837–1901) in Great Britain produced unprecedented wealth and luxury. For artists...