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In this new photographic album from Pen & Sword, transport historian and photographer Jim Blake presents a fascinating selection of pictures of a form of public transport now sadly missing from Britain's streets trolleybuses.
Author : Jim Blake
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 31,27 MB
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1473861489
In this new photographic album from Pen & Sword, transport historian and photographer Jim Blake presents a fascinating selection of pictures of a form of public transport now sadly missing from Britain's streets trolleybuses.
Author : Yu Hua
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 030790864X
From the acclaimed author of Brothers and To Live: thirteen audacious stories that resonate with the beauty, grittiness, and exquisite irony of everyday life in China. Yu Hua’s narrative gifts, populist voice, and inimitable wit have made him one of the most celebrated and best-selling writers in China. These flawlessly crafted stories—unflinching in their honesty, yet balanced with humor and compassion—take us into the small towns and dirt roads that are home to the people who make China run. In the title story, a shopkeeper confronts a child thief and punishes him without mercy. “Victory” shows a young couple shaken by the husband’s infidelity, scrambling to stake claims to the components of their shared life. “Sweltering Summer” centers on an awkward young man who shrewdly uses the perks of his government position to court two women at once. Other tales show, by turns, two poor factory workers who spoil their only son, a gang of peasants who bully the village orphan, and a spectacular fistfight outside a refinery bathhouse. With sharp language and a keen eye, Yu Hua explores the line between cruelty and warmth on which modern China is—precariously, joyfully—balanced. Taken together, these stories form a timely snapshot of a nation lit with the deep feeling and ready humor that characterize its people. Already a sensation in Asia, certain to win recognition around the world, Yu Hua, in Boy in the Twilight, showcases the peerless gifts of a writer at the top of his form.
Author : James Joyce
Publisher :
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,52 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Street-railroads
ISBN :
Author : Douglas Meriwether
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 28,98 MB
Release : 2022-11-25
Category : Transportation
ISBN :
I am continually inspired by those who: take the bus to work; to play; to get around this exciting city: Students, businesswomen, and tourists: all walks and wheels who enter and exit the bus towards their next destination. Here is the answer to the request I get often, “Driver Doug you should write a book!” Get inside the Trolleybus of Happy Destiny and open a page, a chapter, and see what life is like behind the wheel as a Transit Operator in the City that Knows How: San Francisco!
Author : Perdita Finn
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0316295116
Let the games begin... It's an event so special, it only happens once every four years: the Friendship Games. Canterlot High will face off again Crystal Prep Academy in a series of events to determine which school really is the best. Canterlot High has never won the Friendship Games. Will things be different this time? Rainbow Dash is determined to bring her classmates and school to victory. Sure, the students at Crystal Prep are super athletic, super smart, and super motivated, but there's one thing they're not...Wondercolts! Is the magical power of friendship enough to win the Friendship Games? © Hasbro 2015. All Rights Reserved.
Author : Oliver Green
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 20,18 MB
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1473869404
There have been passenger tramways in Britain for 150 years, but it is a rollercoaster story of rise, decline and a steady return. Trams have come and gone, been loved and hated, popular and derided, considered both wildly futuristic and hopelessly outdated by politicians, planners and the public alike. Horse trams, introduced from the USA in the 1860s, were the first cheap form of public transport on city streets. Electric systems were developed in nearly every urban area from the 1890s and revolutionised town travel in the Edwardian era.A century ago, trams were at their peak, used by everyone all over the country and a mark of civic pride in towns and cities from Dover to Dublin. But by the 1930s they were in decline and giving way to cheaper and more flexible buses and trolleybuses. By the 1950s all the major systems were being replaced. Londons last tram ran in 1952 and ten years later Glasgow, the city most firmly linked with trams, closed its network down. Only Blackpool, famous for its decorated cars, kept a public service running and trams seemed destined only for scrapyards and museums.A gradual renaissance took place from the 1980s, with growing interest in what are now described as light rail systems in Europe and North America. In the UK and Ireland modern trams were on the streets of Manchester from 1992, followed successively by Sheffield, Croydon, the West Midlands, Nottingham, Dublin and Edinburgh (2014). Trams are now set to be a familiar and significant feature of twenty-first century urban life, with more development on the way.
Author : Francis Goodall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 20,2 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415086417
Covers the depth and breadth of research in business history.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 21,59 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN :
Author : Donatella Young
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1449065317
Author : Mike Rhodes
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1398116114
With rare and previously unpublished photographs exploring the final years of Midlands half-cab buses.