Pietrp is eleven years old. His father is alcoholic, his mother mentally disturbed, & he dreams of running away. But befroe he can leave, a weary traveller arrives in town. This ageing Casanova has a penchant for young women & flamenco. Life in Ischiano Scalo will never be the same again. ...

In the winter of mid-eighties, two surfers are battling for supremacy at Waimea Bay, home to the biggest waves in the world. Old-school, & some say too old, Ken Bradshaw commands respect with his fearlessness & fearsome temper. Mark Foo is the new kid on the block. Icon of the younger generation, this photogenic Chinese-American wows the crowds with his lightning repertoire of cool moves. One perfect day at Sunset Beach, Foo audaciously steals a wave from under Bradshaw`s nose, sparking a bitter feud that is to last for over ten years & end in tragedy. ...

Will Buckingham travelled to Tanimbar Islands (Indonesia) as a trainee anthropologist to meet three remarkable sculptors: the crippled Matias Fatruan, the buffalo hunter Abraham Amelwatin, & Damianus Masele, who was skilled in black magic, but who abstained out of Christian principle. Part memoir, part travel-writing, Stealing with the Eyes is the story of these men, & also of how stumbling into a world of witchcraft, sickness & fever lead him to question the validity of his anthropological studies, & eventually to abandon them for good. Through his encounters with these remarkable craftsmen & weaving together Tanimbarese history, myth & philosophy of this part of the world from ancient times we are shown the forces at play in all of our lives: the struggle between the powerful & the powerless, the tension between the past & the future, & how to make sense of a world that is in constant flux. ...

A coming-of-age story is given a creative twist in this intimate, offbeat, & strangely affecting novel. The young narrator, age 11, lives with his aged father in a disheveled furnished flat in Cairo. Exceptionally attuned to the moods, habits, & silent yearnings of the adults around him, the boy decides to get organized & become an expert on adult behavior. Surreptitiously, he listens in on adult conversations, observes adult mannerisms, & guesses about comments he's not supposed to underst&--and then he starts to sneak into neighboring apartments to watch adults napping, copulating, bathing, cooking, & all the other activities normal to their lives. ...

The steam locomotive was a British invention & even today, the world speed record for steam remains with a British locomotive, Mallard. Steam`s first significant contribution to British industry was through powering pumping engines for mines. When steam was applied to the railways, the `railway age` began. The steam locomotive went through several distinct phases during its long life, which came to an end on regular service in the late 1960s. The early phase was followed by the trend for large single driving wheels, then compound locomotives with connected driving wheels once steel became strong enough for the connecting rods. Further developments included tank engines that could run equally well forwards & backwards; the 4-6-0 & 4-6-2 expresses; the passion for speed records & streamlining; & the standardisation years of British Railways. This insightful, fully illustrated story book follows the history of the steam locomotive & will delight all those interested in the steam age. ...

Symbols of the Industrial Revolution & modernity, the steam railways of Great Britain offer glimpses of the past against the British modern-day landscape. The steam combustion engine powered trains through the countryside of 19th-century Engl&, Scotl&, & Wales, & in so doing, made historical tracks toward modern industrial development. The steam engine railways of Great Britain mark a defining moment in the history of transportation. Locomotive enthusiasts will surely enjoy this square wall calendar that pays homage to these important pieces of British history. ...

Between 1815 & the American Civil War, the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution delivered a sea change in oceanic transportation. Steam travel transformed the Atlantic into a pulsating highway, dominated by ports in Liverpool & New York, as steamships ferried people, supplies, money, & information with astounding speed & regularity. American raw materials flowed eastward, while goods, capital, people, & technology crossed westward. The Anglo-American “partnership” fueled development worldwide; it also gave rise to a particularly intense competition. Steam Titans tells the story of a transatlantic fight to wrest control of the globe`s most lucrative trade route. Two men
- Samuel Cunard & Edward Knight Collins
- & two nations wielded the tools of technology, finance, & politics to compete for control of a commercial lifeline that spanned the North Atlantic. The world watched carefully to see which would win. Each competitor sent to sea the fastest, biggest, & most elegant ships in the world, hoping to earn the distinction of being known as “the only way to cross.” Historian William M. Fowler brings to life the spectacle of this generation-long struggle for supremacy, during which New York rose to take her place among the greatest ports & cities of the world, & recounts the tale of a competition that was the opening act in the drama of economic globalization, still unfolding today.

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From a Flying Scotsman poster to a USA Railways magazine plate, a range of stunning images to suit any vintage train or travel ...

Most people are under a misapprehension: the Rocket was not the first steam engine. Quite a few were built before it, but Stephenson`s engine was the first successful steam locomotive. Colin Maggs tells the history of the steam engine from pre-Rocket days to British Railways building Evening Star, the last main line locomotive, through to the preservation movement & even new build locomotives of extinct classes such as the Tornado. This is also the story of the rolling stock, the `train`. The early first-class coaches were based on a stagecoach design, while some second-class coaches had no glass in the windows & passengers wore fine-gauge goggles to avoid getting cinders in their eyes. Third-class coaches were merely open trucks
- after all, why not travel in the open as passengers had done on the outside of a stagecoach?
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Map No. 118, Steamboat Springs
- Rabbit Ears Pass in Colorado, in an extensive series of GPS compatible, contoured hiking maps
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