The Romance Of Motoring
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Author | : T. C. Bridges |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2015-02-15 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1445644339 |
A much-prized classic among motor books in an appealing reissue – the first in a set of collectible paperback editions
Author | : Thomas Charles Bridges |
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Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1933 |
Genre | : Automobiles |
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Author | : Thomas Charles Bridges |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1933 |
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Author | : James Rood Doolittle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 958 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Automobile industry and trade |
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Author | : Thomas Charles BRIDGE (and TILTMAN (Hubert Hessell)) |
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Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1933 |
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Author | : John A. Jakle |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820330280 |
Motoring unmasks the forces that shape the American driving experience--commercial, aesthetic, cultural, mechanical--as it takes a timely look back at our historically unconditional love of motor travel. Focusing on recreational travel between 1900 and 1960, John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle cover dozens of topics related to drivers, cars, and highways and explain how they all converge to uphold that illusory notion of release and rejuvenation we call the "open road." Jakle and Sculle have collaborated on five previous books on the history, culture, and landscape of the American road. Here, with an emphasis on the driver's perspective, they discuss garages and gas stations, roadside tourist attractions, freeways and toll roads, truck stops, bus travel, the rise of the convenience store, and much more. All the while, the authors make us think about aspects of driving that are often taken for granted: how, for instance, the many lodging and food options along our highways reinforce the connection between driving and "freedom" and how, by enabling greater speeds, highway engineers helped to stoke motorists' "blessed fantasy of flight." Although driving originally celebrated freedom and touted a common experience, it has increasingly become a highly regulated, isolated activity. The motive behind America's first embrace of the automobile--individual prerogative--still substantially obscures this reality. "Americans did not have the automobile imposed on them," say the authors. Jakle and Sculle ask why some of the early prophetic warnings about our car culture went unheeded and why the arguments of its promoters resonated so persuasively. Today, the automobile is implicated in any number of environmental, even social, problems. As the wisdom of our dependence on automobile travel has come into serious question, reassessment of how we first became that way is more important than ever.
Author | : Erin McCarthy |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2008-11-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1440631662 |
Love shifts into high gear in the first Fast Track novel. The last place widowed single mother Tamara Briggs wanted to find a man was at the racetrack. Been there, done that. But rookie driver Elec Monroe sure does get her heart racing.
Author | : George Gibbard Jackson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 1930* |
Genre | : Automobiles |
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Author | : Charles Norris Williamson |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-05-21 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781358181061 |
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Author | : Michael J. Burgess |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Automobile industry and trade |
ISBN | : 9781854795830 |
This text looks at the origins of our vehicles and reveals the many curious, quirky and extraordinary facts that lie behind the stories of their makers.