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Author
Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
2015
Description
This title uses simple text and labelled photographs to examine a wide range of cool machines used on the road, revealing how each machine solves a particular problem. The machines covered include bicycles, motorbikes, cars, trucks, fire engines, bin lorries, maintenance vehicles, and more!
Author
Publisher
Ebury Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
As Wheeler Dealers' star presenter, Edd China regularly broadcast to 100m global viewers for 13 years, but he's first and foremost a hard-working mechanic, designer and inventor, with a gift for making complicated stuff easy and fixing almost anything. An unstoppable enthusiast from an early age, Edd had 35 ongoing car projects housed in multiple locations by the time he left uni. Now he's a man with a road-legal sofa, office, shed, trolley and bathroom....
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Why does a man with a Ferrari and a Porsche drive a Fiat Panda? Is going fast really necessary? Is it your fault if you get run over? Why will electric cars really save the planet (possibly)? In 'Carbolics', the UK's favourite petrolhead (after Clarkson and Hammond) James May answers these questions and more. Across 80 essays, James gives his quirky, entertaining take on cars, motorbikes, trucks - and explains why the bicycle might just be the best...
Author
Publisher
Conway
Pub. Date
2022
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Description
Martin Dorey, acknowledged camper van expert and presenter of BBC2's 'One Man and His Campervan', delves headfirst into the nitty gritty of camping and camper vans. The book covers all aspects of the camper van life. Packed with stunning photography, and oodles of vital, definitive and authoritative information, plus some tasty recipes too, this book will be essential for both dreamers and do-ers alike.
Author
Publisher
Yellow Kite
Pub. Date
2024
Description
How much do you need to be happy? 'You'll be pregnant and drinking cider outside Tesco by the age of 16.' By age 17, Charlotte Bradman was pregnant. By 30, with a dysfunctional relationship falling apart, her house was repossessed. Shedding her possessions and stripping back life to the basics, Charlotte used the last of her savings to buy a campervan - a creaky, old van with no loo or onboard water. It was the best thing she ever did. Come along...
8) Big machines
Author
Publisher
Ladybird
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
'Big Machines' contains clear, bright pictures and words of popular vehicles to look at and talk about, perfect for young children curious about the world around them.