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Starting from its original conception and design by the owners and naval architects at the White Star Line through construction at Harland and Wolff's shipyards in Belfast, Nick Barratt explores...

This book is considered one of the great books of exploration, about what Shackleton himself called "the last great journey on earth". The book tells of the author's Antarctic expedition...

Both a complete history of aerial combat in the jet age and the true story behind the idea of "Top Gun", the book has the facts, but it alos provides...

RICHARD HAMMOND'S CAR CONFIDENTIAL, packed with information and wit, is a must for anyone even remotely interested in cars. It includes an enormous variety of hints and tips: car and...

For more than 150 years P&O has been one of the world's greatest shipping lines. Beginning with the mail contract to Gibraltar, P&O quickly became the British way to travel...

On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was...

As seen in Vanity Fair, Car and Driver, Architectural Digest, British GQ, and The Times A HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE SELECTION: Car & Driver, Wall Street Journal, Autocar, Cool Hunting, Autoblog...

An A - Z of Railways is a delightful celebration of a golden age. Arranged alphabetically, it deals with the minutiae of railway life as well as the great stations...

Here is an illustrated collection of 250 examples of cars that vary wildly from the norm - cars that are instantly memorable for a variety of reasons. These cars, of...

Sunday Times Bestseller As quintessentially British as a plate of fish and chips or a British Bulldog, the boxy, utilitarian Land Rover Defender has become an iconic part of what...

This is a spectacular book guiding you through the circuits, roads and tracks that have helped shape more than a century of motorsport. From the great road races of the...

William Scoresby (1789-1857) made his first voyage in the whaler Resolution from Whitby to the Greenland Sea, west of Spitsbergen, in 1800. Three years later he was formally apprenticed to...

What is it about an engine roaring into life that makes grown men go weak at the knees? This is a book about machines and the men who love them....