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Top Trumps : Extreme Wheels ( Haynes Publishing )

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Derek Lundy / The Way of a Ship: A Square-Rigger Voyage in the Last Days of Sail (Hardback)

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Geoff Tibballs / Motor Racing's Strangest Races: Extraordinary But True Stories from Over a Century of Motor Racing (Large Paperback)

 In 1894, when the motley assortment of steam and petrol-powered vehicles lined up at the start of the trial from Paris to Rouen, motor-racing's colourful history was launched. Many of the pioneering events were death-defying, trans-continental...

Niamh McAnally / Flares Up: A Story Bigger than the Atlantic (Large Paperback)

 Flares Up is the true story of adventure, tenacity and the capacity of the human spirit to triumph over adversity!Firefighter Paul Hopkins, 55, survives a brain hemorrhage. The experience motivates him to undertake the Talisker Whisky Atlantic...

Tonia Bern-Campbell / My Speed King : Life With Donald Campbell (Hardback)

 The love affair between British speed king Donald Campbell and vivacious singer Tonia Bern was one of the great romances of the twentieth century. But passion turned to tragedy with the dramatic death of Campbell on Coniston Water in January 1967...

Ben Fogle / Land Rover (Hardback)

   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 it is to be British.It is said that for more than half the world's population, the...

Bob Reiss / Frequent Flyer: One Plane, One Passenger, and the Spectacular Feat of Commercial Flight (Hardback)

 A look at commercial airlines discusses the jobs of pilots, mechanics, plane designers, traffic controllers, dispatchers, schedulers, weather forecasters, salesman, labor leaders, and others and recounts anecdotes about air travel. 30,000 first...

Raymond Flint / Head of Steam - Men of Steam Stories (Large Paperback)

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Stephen W. Hines / Titanic: One Newspaper, Seven Days, and the Truth That Shocked the World (Large Paperback)

 The Titanic was the greatest ocean liner ever built and the news of its sinking 5 days into its maiden voyage, shocked the world. Captivated by the tragedy, audiences turned to the trusted Daily Telegraph hoping to find answers to questions of how...

Sebastian Junger / The Perfect Storm - A True Story Of Men Against The Sea (Hardback)

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Maurice Griffiths / The Magic of Swatchways

 Written for all those who love to explore in small boats. It is a book that aims to enthrall anyone who is entranced by the peace and solitude of the creeks at night and the moan of the sea on the sands     All of our books are second...

Mike Lithgow - Vapour Trails : The Men Who Fly at Supersonic Speeds - Vintage PB 1957

Michael John Lithgow, (30 August 1920 – 22 October 1963) was a British aviator and chief test pilot for Vickers Supermarine Aviation who became the holder of the World Absolute Air Speed Record in 1953 flying a Supermarine Swift ...

Steven Davison - Dunlop Dynasty - The World’s Greatest Road Racing Family - HB - 2023

  This is the story of Northern Ireland’s motorcycle road racing legends, the extraordinary Dunlop family. Told through the photography of Stephen Davison, the world’s leading road racing photojournalist, The...

Robin Krause / Ireland by Bike: 21 Tours Geared for Discovery (Large Paperback)

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Frederic Arthur De Vere Robertson - Aircraft of the World - HB 1924

First edition, published by Oxford University Press, 1924, illustrated with colour plates, and black and white illustrations.  In illustrated boards, bumped and scuffed, binding tight, all images intact internally.  A history of aviation in...

Nicholas Faith / Crash : The Limits of Car Safety (Hardback)

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Mark Wallington / The Auto Biography: British Motoring from Golden Age to Gridlock (Hardback)

   Growing up in the 1950s, and now wondering whether he wouldn't be better off getting a free bus pass, Mark's life, told through the cars he's owned, is also the story of Britain seen from the driving seat. His "auto" biography takes us on a...

Len Beadell / Beating about the Bush (Large Paperback)

 When your grader breaks down in the middle of the desert, there's only one thing you can do - attach it to your bulldozer and tow it back to civilisation.When your grader breaks down in the middle of the desert, there's only one thing you can do -...

Priyanthi Fernando / Balancing the Load : Women Gender and Transport (Large Paperback)

 Increasing women's opportunities for micro-enterprise is a vital step in overcoming poverty, and in rural areas, access to markets and transport is a necessary means to achieving that ends. Yet, as this unique investigation into the relationship...

Donald McCullough / You Have Been Warned! : A Complete Guide to the Road (Hardback)

 This guide to the road, originally published in Britain in 1935, is a compilation of humorous advice for perplexed motorists. It contains perennially useful tips on such topics as hand signals for drivers - from 'I am going to shake the ash off my...

Timothy Collings / The Piranha Club : Power and Influence in Formula One (Hardback)

   'Welcome to the Piranha Club!' Ron Dennis (head of McLaren) to Eddie Jordan on the inception of the Jordan team. The Piranha Club is the first serious study of Formula One's most intriguing and influential figuras - the men who wield the...

John Christopher / Riding the Jetstream : The Story of Ballooning - From Montgolfier to Breitling (Hardback)

   Ballooning can be both all-absorbing relaxation and high-tech sport. This text tells its amazing story from the Montgolfier brothers to today's riders of the jetstream - the narrow band of fast winds high in the Earth's atmosphere...

Richard Rawlings / Fast N' Loud : Blood, Sweat and Beers (Hardback)

 The breakout star of Discovery's hit automotive restoration show Fast N' Loud takes readers on an entertaining ride through his wild life and behind the scenes of his hit show in this memoir and automotive handbook, revving with outrageous details...

Leslie Howe - The Merchant Service To-Day - Vintage HB - 1941

Hardcover Publisher: Oxford University Press. London, undated but 1941. No dustjacket. 159 pages with tables, and 10 figures, plus 23 plates with 30 black and white photos, & 1 folded chart of the Thames Estuary. Frontis illustrations...

Tommy Cecil - The Harsh Winds of Rathlin : Stories of Shipwrecks ( Extended Edition - PB ) BRAND NEW

This is an updated and extended edition of Thomas Cecil's original The Harsh Winds of Rathlin: Stories of Rathlin Shipwrecks, first published in 1989. This earlier edition contained the result of all the known wrecks known at the time. This new edition...

Gwen Wilkinson - The Waters and the Wild - PB - BRAND NEW 2023

In 2019, Gwen Wilkinson set herself the challenge of building a canoe and paddling it the length of Ireland, along a network of inland waterways. She set out from the shores of Lough Erne and navigated a 400km journey to the tidal waters of the River...

Humphrey Wynn / World Airline Insignia (Vintage Paperback)

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John W. R. Taylor / Rockets & Missiles (Vintage Paperback)

All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive.

Julian Sancton / Madhouse at the End of the Earth (Large Paperback)

 'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMES***A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021***The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition...

Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War

 Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil...

John Matthews / Grand Prix: The Killer Years : Extended Interviews from the BBC Film

  This is the story of when Grand Prix was out of control. Mechanical failure, lethal track design, fire and incompetence snuffed out dozens of eager young drivers, who had become almost expendable. It was the '60s and early '70s and this waste...

J Joyce - Tramway Twilight - The Story of British Tramways 1956 to 1962 - HB

A survey of British urban tramways post WW2 . Edgewear to covers.  Closed tear to upper edge of back cover.  Illustrated throughout in black and white, published 1962. 

David Beaty / The Naked Pilot (Large Paperback)

  Investigations into the causes of aircraft accidents have for decades focused on what happened and who did it - very rarely Why? It is the question Why? that David Beaty has addressed here, fighting the misnomer of 'pilot error' and propounding...

Brendon, Piers - The Motoring Century - The Story of the Royal Automobile Club ( RAC) 1887-1987 - Boxed Deluxe ed

Hardcover , in glassine transparent jacket, as issued in a dark blue cardboard box with RAC emblem and the centenary dates on front box cover in silver.  As you grapple with increasing traffic, pollution and cities scarred by the motor car, it may...

Brendan Ogle / Off the Rails : The Story of ILDA (Large Paperback)

  The summer of 2000 in Ireland was dominated by a three-month lock out by Iarmod Eireann, the national train service, of 118 of its drivers, over 40% of the total workforce. The employees involved were all members of the ILDA-the Irish...

Nock, O. S - Railway Race to the North - Scotland - Vintage 1958 PB

Published by Ian Allan Publishing ( probably the pre-eminent publisherof railway material in the last century) - undated  but the preface is dated 1958.  Small format paperback, illustrated throughout in b&w , detailing the development (...

Guy Martin / Guy Martin : My Autobiography (Hardback)

 This book is the Phenomenal Sunday Times No1 Bestseller. 'It was the start of the third lap of the 2010 Senior TT, the last race of the fortnight. The last chance to get a TT win for another year, and I was pushing hard. Ballagarey. The kind of...

Josie Dew / A Ride In The Neon Sun : A Gaijin in Japan (Hardback)

  Josie spent eight months cycling round Japan, starting with Tokyo - the hustle and bustle of a very busy city with masses of cars, neon lights and fast food takeaways. Tokyo has a population of 27 million. Then she went on to the country,...

Guy Martin / Guy Martin: Worms to Catch (Hardback)

 `I was never going to sleep in and take it easy, there were worms to catch.'In August 2015 Guy Martin crashed out of the lead of an Ulster Grand Prix superbike race held on the world's fastest racetrack. He had invasive surgery to bolt his broken...

Peter Rigney - The Irish Munitions Embargo of 1920 : How Railwaymen & Dockers defied an Empire - PB - SIGNED - 2021

The Irish munitions strike is one of the most important, yet historically neglected episodes of the War of Independence. Peter Rigney's book has redressed that balance - he shows how ordinary railway workers and the wider trade union movement used civil...

David Walsh / Inside Team Sky (Large Paperback)

 After the victory of Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky in the 2012 Tour de France, the pressure was on the team to repeat their success in 2013. When Wiggins had to pull out of the defence of his yellow jersey, attention moved to Chris Froome, who had...

Malcolm MacPherson / Air Disasters : Dramatic Black Box Flight Recordings

 Compelling and dramatic insights into crucial moments inside the cockpit.Discover the most sensational air disasters of recent years. Transcripts of actual black box recordings of conversations between captains, their crew, and air traffic control...

Scott-Moncrieff , David - Veteran and Edwardian Motor Cars - Vintage PB 1963

A detailed ( and illustrated) guide to the most notable cars from teh earliest age of automobiles - roughly covering the period 1895 -1914 , as well as a look back at the origins of personal motorised transport .  Light edgewear to the covers,...

Pat Doran - A Clune's Lane Fisherman : My Life as a Shannon Estuary Fisherman & Boatbuilder - PB - LImerick City - 2008

  The life of ordinary working people is often not the content of history books. This book is a unique contribution to the social history of Limerick , looking as it does at the life of dock labourers and of salmon fishermen on the Shannon estuary...

Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB

A classic of Irish maritime history.  The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship...

Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast 1105-1993 - Volume 1 - PB - SIGNED

A classic of Irish maritime history.  The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three volumes and a fourth illustrated volume. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries,  East india ship...

Joe Jackson / A Furnace Afloat : The Wreck of the Hornet and the 4,300 Mile Voyage of its Survivors

  When an accident with an open oil lantern set the American clipper Hornet alight in 1866, the 31 passengers and crew were forced to abandon ship. Cast adrift in three small lifeboats, they had less than 10 days rations to share between them...

O. S. Nock / Pocket Encyclopedia British Steam Railways

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Pat Sweeney / Liffey Ships and Shipbuilding (Large Paperback)

  To the vast majority of people, when shipbuilding in Ireland is mentioned, they think only of Belfast, the Harland & Wolff shipyard and the tragic maiden voyage of the Titanic in 1912. However, there was a vibrant shipbuilding industry in...

Matt Cooper / Michael O'Leary : Turbulent Times for the Man Who Made Ryanair (Large Paperback)

   Financial Times Business Book of the MonthSeptember 2017. Ryanair cancels over 700,000 bookings and its powerful PR juggernaut comes shuddering to a halt. For once, the airline's aggressive and flamboyant CEO, Michael O'Leary, is contrite...

L T C Rolt - Green and Silver HB - 1993 Reprint ( originally 1949) - Canal Waterways Ireland

First published in 1949, Green & Silver by L.T.C. Rolt describes a journey through the inland waterways of Ireland. He takes us over the mighty Shannon from the upper limit of navigation at the little village of Battlebridge, near Leitrim down to...

Nicholas Faith / Black Box : Why Air Safety is No Accident (Large Paperback)

 Previously published in hardback an in depth study of what causes the modern air disaster detailing the work of the air-crash detectives who investigate the circumstances surrounding international aviation disasters and attempt to ensure future air...