This third edition (2018) Camper Trailer Book details every aspect of camper trailers and their use. It describes in plain English approaches that will work, not just that may work. Camper trailers offer the freedom and pleasures of camping without the discomfort. A well-made one can be towed almost anywhere its towing vehicle can traverse. The ......
This book is about stagecoach travel during the Napoleonic War, the era of Austen and Dickens, and the early years of Queen Victoria. Its covers travel, hospitality and roads and many other aspects of British life between 1790 and 1840. It is a story often forgotten or ignored, of a country about to be transformed by railways, factories and ......
How One California Dealership Fueled the Rise of Ferrari in America
When Ferrari of Los Gatos opened, few people could afford an expensive sports car. In 1973, the average annual income was $12,686, and a new home cost about $48,000. Motorists in California could only buy gas on odd or even-numbered days based on the last digit of their license plate, due to the global oil crisis. Times were tough, and people ......
Attention Australian Speedway and Motorsport Fans! The popular Liverpool City Raceway book is finally reprinting! This lavishly illustrated book covering the history of Liverpool City Raceway from its construction in 1966 to its sad demise in 1989, is loaded with first person memories from competitors, (like Sir Jack Brabham).
How Cyclists Were the First to Push for Good Roads & Became the Pioneers of Motoring
Roads Were Not Built for Cars is a history book, focussing on a time when cyclists had political clout, in Britain and especially in America. The book researches the Roads Improvement Association - a lobbying group created by the Cyclists' Touring Club in 1886 - and the Good Roads movement organised by the League of American Wheelmen.
How Marginalized American Motorists Fought to Drive and Park
Car ownership is central to the U.S. culture wars about global warming and urban sprawl. While the environmental issues surrounding car use are well known, the car is also the focus of debates about urban redevelopment, racially biased policing, women's employment, immigration, homelessness, and disability rights. Right to the Road: How ......
A history of steamboats and railroads in the United States prior to the Civil War. In the first half of the nineteenth century, transportation in the United States underwent an extraordinary transformation. Steamboats and railroads turned long-distance travel from an arduous undertaking into a regularized commodity: travel became something that ......
Viewing Norfolk Southern Railway covers the history of this railroad, beginning with the South Carolina Canal & Rail Road Company, which in 1830 operated the first regularly scheduled passenger train in the United States. Among the many railroads that became part of Norfolk Southern was the Pennsylvania Railroad, whose completion of the Horseshoe ......
Autonomous Vehicles and the Ethics of Technological Change
As the development of autonomous vehicles proceeds full-speed ahead, it is often said that this new, disruptive form of transportation will change everything. Such a claim has drawn both philosophical and public attention to what could be called ethical emergencies: imaginary situations ranging from life-or-death trolley-problem conundrums to ......