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by Jack Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Since his first feature in Motorcyclist magazine, contributing editor Jack Lewis has set a high bar in polarizing the readership. Letters to the editor may brim with love or sizzle with hatred, but are never indifferent. Castigated by his editor for routinely doubling his allotted space, this "rider's...
No Visible Horizon
Surviving the World's Most Dangerous Sport
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
The flying life has always demanded a passage across the razor's edge. At any moment you could slip to the other side: a gas leak, weather, fire in the cockpit. Sometimes what made the risks particularly horrible was that you could watch your mistakes play out in front of you, as a chorus of guilt...
Ultimate Speed Secrets: The Complete Guide to High-Performance and Race Driving
The Complete Guide to High-Performance and Race Driving
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2011
Ultimate Speed Secrets is the drivers’ guide to going faster! Professional race instructor Ross Bentley has raced everything from Indy cars to world sports cars and has the experience to make any racer a more complete driver. With detailed drills and comprehensive instructions, Bentley covers everything...
How to Build Small-Block Ford Racing Engines HP1536
Parts, Blueprinting, Modifications, and Dyno Testing for Drag, Circle Track,Road , Off-Road, and Boat Racing. Covers All Small-Block Fords, 302/5.0L, and351W/5.
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This guide for building a race-winning Ford engine includes chapters on parts and engines, cylinder block, cylinder heads, bottom-end modifications, exhaust systems, cooling systems, final engine assembly, dyno-tested performance combinations and more.
Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman
The Racing Life of Paul Newman
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Winner of International Automotive Media Gold Award 2010 For all his fame as one of Hollywood's great actors, a world-class humanitarian, and the proprietor of a natural food empire, the late Paul Newman had another intriguing facet that was less known and perhaps closer to his heart than all the...
The New Get Rid of Boat Odors, 2nd Edition
A Boat Owner's Guide to Marine Sanitation Systems and Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
This is the completely-updated 2nd Edition of Peggie Hall's famous book "Get Rid of Boat Odors." "The New Get Rid of Boat Odors, 2nd ed." by Peggie Hall, known by many of her fans as "The Headmistress," will teach you how to eliminate annoying odors on your boat by treating...
Long Way Down
An Epic Journey by Motorcycle from Scotland to South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
Eighteen countries. Five shock absorbers.
Two bikers. One amazing adventure...
After their fantastic trip round the world in 2004, fellow actors and bike fanatics Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman couldn't shake the travel bug. Inspired by their UNICEF visits to Africa, they knew they had to...
Bike Fever
On Motorcycle Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Lee Gutkind’s memoir of motorcycling, and an ode to the solitude, independence, and exhilaration of the open road
Few things loom as large in our imaginations as the idea of a cross-country trip, exposed to the elements and open to whatever challenges lie around the bend. In the early 1970s,...
The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America
A Flight Into the Heart of America
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
The compelling real-life adventure from New York Times bestselling author Stephen Coonts—now available as an ebook
Bestselling author Stephen Coonts’s stirring ode to aviation: a revealing account of his three months spent exploring small-town America from the skies
Stephen Coonts...
Long Way Round
Chasing Shadows Across the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2004
It started as a daydream. Poring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, Ewan McGregor - actor and self-confessed bike nut - noticed that it was possible to ride all the way round the world, with just one short hop across the Bering Strait from Russia to Alaska. It was a revelation...
The Enlightened Cyclist
Commuter Angst, Dangerous Drivers, and Other Obstacles on the Path to Two-Wheeled Trancendence
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
The joys of commuting by bike attract scores of new converts every year. But as fresh-faced cyclists fill the roads, they also encounter their share of frustrations—careless drivers, wide-flung car doors, zoned-out pedestrians, and aggressive fellow cyclists, to name a few. In this follow-up to...
London Under
The Secret History Beneath the Streets
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In this vividly descriptive short study, Peter Ackroyd tunnels down through the geological layers of London, meeting the creatures that dwell in darkness and excavating the lore and mythology beneath the surface.
There is a Bronze Age trackway below the Isle of Dogs, Anglo-Saxon graves rest...
by Sherrie McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2012
A motorcycle adventure through Europe, Russia, Asia and South America. Take a seat in a Russian banya, a Mongolian ger, or a campfire in the deserted pampas. Ride with the author through icy deserts, over dizzying mountain passes, through swamps and endless forests. Experience the driest desert as...
Falling Upwards
How We Took to the Air
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**
**Time Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013**
**The New Republic Best Books of 2013**
In this heart-lifting chronicle, Richard Holmes, author of the best-selling The Age of Wonder, follows the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, the daring and...