Transport

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...

Damon Hill / Watching the Wheels : My Autobiography

 The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller, shortlisted for the Cross Sports Book Award. In 1996, Damon Hill was crowned Formula One World Champion. For the first time ever he tells the story of his journey through the last golden era of the sport when he...

Patrick O'Sullivan / The Sinking of the Lusitania

 In May 1915, the RMS Lusitania, then the world's fastest liner, departed from New York. Seven days later she was torpedoed off the Irish coast with the loss of 1198 lives. Suspected by the Germans of carrying clandestine munitions to Britain, the...

Alan Anderson / Muck, Sweat and Gears:A Celebration of Cycling (Hardback)

 A compendium of fascinating facts, quotations, statistics, stories, personalities, advice and trivia - fully revised to included cycling's dramatic increase in popularity since this volume was first published - it will inspire and entertain cycling...

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...

Chris Naylor / The Cyclist's Friend (Hardback)

 `Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart' - Iris Murdoch.Roadies, tourers, mountain bikers and casual cyclists will savour this insightful collection of quotations and prose from cycle lovers...

A Bike Snob Abroad / Strange Customs, Incredible Fiets, and the Quest for Cycling Paradise (Hardback)

  Bike Snob is all grown up! After two books and thousands of miles under his tires, Bike Snob is back with a book that takes his family on the road - 2 year old son in tow - on an international cycling adventure into the wild and tweedy...

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. 

Les Woodland / The Yellow Jersey Companion To The Tour De France (Large Paperback)

 The Yellow Jersey Companion to the Tour de France might just tell you everything you've ever wanted to know about the world's greatest sporting event.We won't just give you the name of every stage winner; every mountain and the first to top them;...

William Fotheringham / Roule Britannia

 Fifty years ago, ten Britons crossed the Channel and made history. For the first time, a team of British cyclists took part in the Tour de France, the most gruelling event in all of sport. Only two of those riders completed that 1955 race; only one...

Paul Teutul / The Ride of a Lifetime (Hardback)

 Tough, smart business advice from the star of the hit TLC reality show "American Chopper" Now in paperback, The Ride of a Lifetime elucidates the business principles that have made Paul Teutul Sr. and Orange County Choppers a household name. Paul's...

James May / Notes from the Hard Shoulder

 Top Gear presenter and columnist for the Daily Telegraph James May brings together another brilliant collection of his most controversial and humorous writing.From tales of motoring adventures through India, Russia and Iceland, to classic articles...

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...

Peter Sagan / My World (Hardback)

 From 2015 to 2017, Peter Sagan achieved the seemingly impossible: he won three road race World Championships in a row, ensuring his entry into the history books as one of the greatest riders of all time.But to look at Peter's record in isolation is...

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,...

Stephen Roche / The Agony and the Ecstasy (Hardback)

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

John Peters / Team Tornado

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardback)

 BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER____________________________________HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth.In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its...

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...

Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965

 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title.  Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to...

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...

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,...

Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of Antarctic Journeys

  The very best writing on the Antarctic, from James Cook's eighteenth-century assertion that 'no man will ever venture further than I have done' to Lynne Cox's description of her epic, icy swim in the twenty-first century - 32 first-hand...

Richard Branson / Reach for the Skies : Ballooning, Birdmen and Blasting into Space (Large Paperback)

   As far back as stories go, pioneers have reached for the skies. In the last two hundred years, they have mastered the air and made the modern world possible. Today they are bringing outer space within our reach. They're inventors and...

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...

Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970

This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were Irish, and worked as organised gang labour doing some of teh...

Iain Carson / Zoom : The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future

   If oil is a problem, it seems that cars are the solution. Working on innovative, environmental technologies and entirely new business models, the car industry could be launching society's greatest leap forward in a hundred years. "Zoom"...