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Britain's Living Past - A Celebration of Britain's Surviving Traditional Cultural and Working Practices by Anthony Burton; Rob Scott
$52.99 NZD
Category: History
In Britain's Living Past, writer Anthony Burton and photographer Rob Scott explore Britain's rich heritage of traditional cultural and working practices, looking at how we work and play in ways that have survived into the modern age with all their vitality intact. The book covers everything from farming ...Show more
Steam Traction on the Road by Anthony Burton
$74.99 NZD
Category: Automotive & Transport
This is the story of how for more than a hundred years steam power played a vital role in the development of road transport. It all began with tentative attempts to build steam carriages by pioneers such as Cugnot in France and Trevithick in Britain, and in the early part of the nineteenth century there ...Show more
Steam Traction on the Road - From Trevithick to Sentinel: 150 Years of Design and Development by Anthony Burton
$69.99 NZD
Category: Railway & Trains
This is the story of how for more than a hundred years steam power played a vital role in the development of road transport. It all began with tentative attempts to build steam carriages by pioneers such as Cugnot in France and Trevithick in Britain, and in the early part of the nineteenth century there ...Show more
The Canal Builders: How Britain's Canal Network Evolved (HB) by Anthony Burton
$69.99 NZD
Category: History
Canal Builders is a classic history book for anyone interested in the development of Britain's canal system. The book, which was first published in the 1970s, is now republished here in a new fifth edition. It takes the reader from the middle of the eighteenth century, to the start of the railway age in ...Show more
Thomas Telford: Master Builder of Roads and Canals by Anthony Burton
$69.99 NZD
Category: Travel
Thomas Telford's life was extraordinary: born in the Lowlands of Scotland, where his father worked as a shepherd, he ended his days as the most revered engineer in the world, known punningly as "The Colossus of Roads". He was responsible for some of the great works of the age, such as the suspension bri ...Show more
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