Trains, Planes, Ships and Cars by James Hamilton-Paterson
An illustrated celebration of the golden age of aircraft, cars and locomotives from 1900 to 1945.
Airships and electric cars take centre stage in this fascinating transport book * Scotsman *
Lavishly illustrated with wonderful photographs.. Unusually for this type of picture book, it is elegantly written, by somene who has an easy command of his subject, and firm opinions. It is the opposite of bland' * Mail on Sunday *
This book is full of extraordinary images and bizarre facts – barely a page goes by without some amazing form of transport, whether real or imagined * Yorkshire Post *
Hamilton-Paterson describes the extraordinary progress made in each individual category of transport * This England *
Transports the reader back to an era when travel really was the stuff of dreams – for both the man in the street, and the man behind the drawing board * On Yorkshire Magazine *
Lavishly illustrated with wonderful photographs.. Unusually for this type of picture book, it is elegantly written, by somene who has an easy command of his subject, and firm opinions. It is the opposite of bland' * Mail on Sunday *
This book is full of extraordinary images and bizarre facts – barely a page goes by without some amazing form of transport, whether real or imagined * Yorkshire Post *
Hamilton-Paterson describes the extraordinary progress made in each individual category of transport * This England *
Transports the reader back to an era when travel really was the stuff of dreams – for both the man in the street, and the man behind the drawing board * On Yorkshire Magazine *
James Hamilton-Paterson is one of Britain's most versatile writers. He won a Whitbread Prize for his novel Gerontius and is the author of Marked for Death, Eroica and Blackbird.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781789542363 |
| ISBN 10 | 1789542367 |
| Title | Trains, Planes, Ships and Cars |
| Author | James Hamilton-Paterson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2020-01-09 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |