Age of Combustion: Notes on Automobile Design by STEPHEN BAYLEY
$44.99 AUD
Category: Transport
The automobile is the ultimate analogue machine and mankind's most ingenious, seductive and damaging invention. For over a century, cars have provided reference points for our notions of style, status and desire. In design terms, the Age of Combustion was as rich and varied as architecture's Baroque and ...Show more
Auto Erotica: A grand tour through classic car brochures of the 1960s to 1980s by Jonny Trunk
$49.99 AUD
Category: Transport
The first book of its kind - a car book like no other - offering a deeply nostalgic look at beautiful vintage cars through the superb literature, leaflets and pamphlets that sold them to us. Auto Erotica covers the gamut of motoring in Britain during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.These rare ephemeral bookl ...Show more
Black Beauties: Iconic Cars by RENE STAUD
$99.00 AUD
Category: Transport | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
René Staud, the grand master of automobile photography, has published a new illustrated book. In his coffee-table book Black Beauties, the automotive photographer devotes himself entirely to the colour black. In this extraordinarily book, Staud takes car lovers on a journey through time and presents the ...Show more
History Motoring Through 100 Legendary Cars by CORTANZE
$79.99 AUD
Category: Transport | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
From the mythical De Dion Bouton Type K1 to the Delahaye, from the Jeep Willys to the combi Volkswagen, from the Mercedes Benz to the Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500, from the Aston Martin DB7 to the Bugatti Veyron 16.4, and from the Austin Mini to the Range Rover. A hundred years of innovation, inventivenes ...Show more
IconiCars Mercedes-Benz 300 SL by JURGEN LEWANDOWSKI
$59.99 AUD
Category: Transport | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
In 1954, the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL was unveiled at the International Motor Sports Show in New York - the start of an unparalleled success story. Victories in the 24-hour race at Le Mans and the Carrera Panamericana made it world-famous. It also possessed groundbreaking technology, including the first ser ...Show more
King of the Air: The Turbulent Life of Charles Kingsford Smith by Ann Blainey
$36.99 AUD
Category: Transport
Charles Kingsford Smith was the most commanding flyer of the golden age of aviation. In three short years, he broke records with his astounding and daring voyages- the first trans-Pacific flight from America to Australia, the first circumnavigation around the equator, the first non-stop crossing of the ...Show more
Land Rover Series II/IIA by John Carroll
$49.99 AUD
Category: Transport | Series: Classic Vehicle Ser.
After ten years of production, the Solihull-manufactured Land Rover was established as a useful 4x4, popular with farmers, armies, and those whose employment took them far from the beaten track. Following a redesign, the Series II Land Rover was launched in April 1958. It was available in two wheelbases ...Show more
Locomotives - The Modern Diesel and Electric Reference by Greg McDonnell
$39.95 AUD
Category: Transport
"This new oversize, full color book is the 'Diesel Spotter's Guide' on steroids After you get Locomotives, you'll WANT to go out and see what's new!"--Railfan and Railroad "This is a field guide that is also elegant, so my advice is this: Buy two copies, and toss one in your car, and put the other one ...Show more
Luxury Trains: Splendour, Elegance & Extravagance by SIMON BERTRAND
$99.00 AUD
Category: Transport | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Luxury trains have always fascinated and excited our imaginations. A great source of style, romance and exoticism, they have long held starring roles in literature and in Hollywood movies. This wonderful book evokes long-lost days of travel, where trains marked international railway history, from the Or ...Show more
Red Tail Skies: A big book of Qantas Stories by Jim Eames
$34.99 AUD
Category: Transport
Heroic, hilarious and sometimes just plain weird . . . Jim Eames shares great Qantas stories from World War II to the age of the jumbo and beyond. 'These are stories of passion and dedication, of risk and resilience, of excellence and Australian larrikinism, of inventiveness and determination.' Captain ...Show more
Steam Australia: Locomotives that Galvanised the Nation by Tim Fischer
$39.99 AUD
Category: Transport
If you are passionate about steam locomotives, or know someone who is, then Steam Australia is the perfect companion. Tim Fischer takes readers into the fascinating and grand story of steam transportation over ten vital decades of transformation in Australia's history. This book is so much more than a h ...Show more
Subaru Ff-1 by Gavin Farmer
$90.00 AUD
Category: Transport
A history of the Subaru 1000, 1100 ff-1 and 1300G automobiles from 1966 through 1972