2019, ISBN: 9781901927481

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Bestsellers. Good. / -- / / 18.2 x 13 x 2.2 cm / 0.3 kg, Bestsellers, 2.5, Flammarion, 2014. 21x14x2cm. 2014. Broché. 250 pages. French édition - Le livre qui n'a jamais été lu prése… Mehr…

Bestsellers. Good. / -- / / 18.2 x 13 x 2.2 cm / 0.3 kg, Bestsellers, 2.5, Flammarion, 2014. 21x14x2cm. 2014. Broché. 250 pages. French édition - Le livre qui n'a jamais été lu présente des marques de stockage sur la couverture et/ou les pourtours mais reste en très bon état d'ensemble. Expédition soignée sous blister dans une enveloppe a bulles, Flammarion, 2014, 0, Flammarion, 2014. 21x14x2cm. 2014. Broché. 250 pages. french édition - Le livre qui n'a jamais été lu présente des marques de stockage sur la couverture et/ou les pourtours mais reste en tres bon état d'ensemble. Expédition soignée sous blister dans une enveloppe à bulles depuis la France, Flammarion, 2014, 0, London: Ward Lock, 1996. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 192pp. 820g. Blue cloth boards Near FINE with tiny scar to top reear edge, but contents tight and clean, in a V.G, d/w, a little rubbed to top edge. Details 32 walks in Ulster with route maps and relief diagrams.., Ward Lock, 1996, 5, Audio CD. Very Good. Glam: Diamonds - Saucy Songs For Femme Fatales, 2010 Somerset Audio Music CD, the CD is Excellent with a few small indents on the illustrated metal storage case. No. of Discs: 1 UPC: 096741282829 Album Tracks 1. Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend 2. Personality 3. Why Don't You Do Right (Get Me Some Money Too) 4. Anything Goes 5. C'est Magnifique 6. Stormy Weather 7. (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 8. When Love Goes Wrong 9. Danke Sch en 10. Too Close For Comfort 11. Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea 12. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To 13. Call Me Irresponsible 14. Ain't That A Kick In The Head., 3, Allentown and Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh Valley Chapter, National Railway Historical Society [Printed by A B C Printing], 1967. Book. Very Good. Spiral Bound. Second Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Light blue pictorial wraps. 94 pp., illus., maps at rear. 2nd ptg.: 1982. Covers somewhat soiled, tanned inside rear cover.., Lehigh Valley Chapter, National Railway Historical Society [Printed by A B C Printing], 1967, 3, 1960 Soil Survey of Alamance County, North Carolina CD-RUnited States Department of Agriculture - Soil Conservation ServiceAlamance County is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 151,131. Its county seat is Graham. Formed in 1849 from Orange County to the east, Alamance County has been the site of significant historical events, textile manufacturing, and agriculture.Alamance County comprises the Burlington Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point Combined Statistical Area. The 2012 estimated population of the metropolitan area was 153,920.Before being formed as a county, the region had at least one known small Southeastern tribe of Native American in the 18th century, the Sissipahaw, who lived in the area bounded by modern Saxapahaw, the area known as the Hawfields, and the Haw River. European settlers entered the region in the late 17th century chiefly following Native American trading paths, and set up their farms in what they called the "Haw Old Fields", fertile ground previously tilled by the Sissipahaw. The paths later became the basis of the railroad and interstate highway routes.Alamance County was named after Great Alamance Creek, site of the Battle of Alamance (May 16, 1771), a pre-Revolutionary War battle in which militia under the command of Governor William Tryon crushed the Regulator movement. Great Alamance Creek, and in turn Little Alamance Creek, according to legend, were named after a local Native American word to describe the blue mud found at the bottom of the creeks. Other legends say the name came from another local Native American word meaning "noisy river", or for the Alamanni region of Rhineland, Germany, where many of the early settlers came from.During the American Revolution, several small battles and skirmishes occurred in the area that became Alamance County, several of them during the lead-up to the Battle of Guilford Court House, including Pyle's Massacre, the Battle of Lindley's Mill, and the Battle of Clapp's Mill.In the 1780s, the Occaneechi Native Americans returned to North Carolina from Virginia, this time settling in what is now Alamance County rather than their first location near Hillsborough. In 2002, the modern Occaneechi tribe bought 25 acres (100,000 m2) of their ancestral land in Alamance County and began a Homeland Preservation Project that includes a village reconstructed as it would have been in 1701 and a 1930s farming village.During the early 19th century, the textile industry grew heavily in the area, and so the need for better transportation grew. By the 1840s several mills were set up along the Haw River and near Great Alamance Creek and other major tributaries of the Haw. Between 1832 and 1880, at least 14 major mills were powered by these rivers and streams. Mills were built by the Trollinger, Holt, Newlin, Swepson, and Rosenthal families, among others. One of them, built in 1832 by Ben Trollinger, is still in operation. It is owned by Copland Industries, sits in the unincorporated community of Carolina and is the oldest continuously operating mill in North Carolina.One notable textile produced in the area was the "Alamance Plaids" or "Glencoe Plaids" used in everything from clothing to tablecloths. The Alamance Plaids manufactured by textile pioneer Edwin M. Holt were the first colored cotton goods produced on power looms in the South, and paved the way for the region's textile boom. (Holt's home is now the Alamance County Historical Society.) But by the late 20th century, most of the plants and mills had gone out of business, including the mills operated by Burlington Industries, a company based in Burlington.By the 1840s, the textile industry was booming, and the railroad was being built through the area as a convenient link between Raleigh and Greensboro. The county was formed on January 29, 1849 from Orange County.In March 1861, Alamance County residents voted overwhelmingly against North Carolina's secession from the Union, 1,114 to 254. Two delegates were sent to the State Secession Convention, Thomas Ruffin and Giles Mebane, who both opposed secession, as did most of the delegates sent to the convention. At the time of the convention, around 30% of Alamance County's population were slaves (total population of c. 12,000, including c. 3,500 slaves and c. 500 free blacks).North Carolina was reluctant to join other Southern states in secession until the Battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861. When Lincoln called up troops, Governor John Ellis replied, "I can be no party to this wicked violation of the laws of the country and to this war upon the liberties of a free people. You can get no troops from North Carolina." After a special legislative session, North Carolina's legislature unanimously voted for secession on May 20, 1861.No battles took place in Alamance County, but it sent its share of soldiers to the front lines. In July 1861, for the first time in American history, soldiers were sent in to combat by rail. The 6th North Carolina was loaded onto railroad cars at Company Shops and transferred to the battlefront at Manassas, Virginia (First Battle of Manassas).Although the citizens of Alamance County were not directly affected throughout much of the war, in April 1865 they witnessed firsthand their sons and fathers marching through the county just days before the war ended with the surrender at Bennett Place near Durham. At Company Shops General Joseph E. Johnston stopped to say farewell to his soldiers for the last time. By the end of the war, 236 people from Alamance County had been killed in the course of the war, more than any other war since the county's founding.Some of the Civil War's most significant effects were seen after it ended. Alamance County briefly became a center of national attention when in 1870 Wyatt Outlaw, an African-American Town Commissioner in Graham, was lynched by the "White Brotherhood," the Ku Klux Klan. He was president of the Alamance County Union League of America (an anti-Klan group), helped to establish the Republican party in North Carolina and advocated establishing a school for African Americans. His offense was that Governor William Holden had appointed him a Justice of the Peace, and he had accepted the appointment. Outlaw's body was found hanging 30 yards from the courthouse, a note pinned to his chest reading, "Beware! You guilty parties both white and black." Outlaw was the central figure in political cooperation between blacks and whites in the county.Holden declared Caswell County in a state of insurrection (July 8) and sent troops to Caswell and Alamance counties under the command of Union veteran George W. Kirk, beginning the so-called Kirk-Holden War. Kirk's troops ultimately arrested 82 men.The Grand Jury of Alamance County indicted 63 Klansmen for felonies and 18 for the murder of Wyatt Outlaw. Soon after the indictments were brought, Democrats in the legislature passed a bill to repeal the law under which the indictments had been secured. The 63 felony charges were dropped. The Conservatives then used a national program of "Amnesty and Pardon" to proclaim amnesty for all who committed crimes on behalf of a secret society. This was extended to the Klansmen of Alamance County. There would be no justice in the case of Wyatt Outlaw.Holden's support for Reconstruction led to his impeachment and removal by the North Carolina Legislature in 1871.The county was once the state leader in dairy production. Several dairies including Melville Dairy in Burlington were headquartered in the county. With increasing real estate prices and a slump in milk prices, most dairy farms have been sold and many of them developed for real estate purposes.According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 435 square miles (1,130 km2), of which 424 square miles (1,100 km2) is land and 11 square miles (28 km2) (2.5%) is water.The county is in the Piedmont physiographical region. It has a general rolling terrain with the Cane Creek Mountains rising to over 970 ft (300 m) in the south central part of the county just north of Snow Camp. Bass Mountain, one of the prominent hills in the range, is home to a world-renowned bluegrass music festival every year. There are also isolated monadnocks in the northern part of the county that rise to near or over 900 ft (270 m) above sea level.The largest river that flows through Alamance County is the Haw, which feeds into Jordan Lake in Chatham County, eventually leading to the Cape Fear River. The county is also home to numerous creeks, streams, and ponds, including Great Alamance Creek, where a portion of the Battle of Alamance was fought. There are three large municipal reservoirs: Lake Cammack, Lake Mackintosh, and Graham-Mebane Lake (formerly Quaker Lake)., United States Department of Agriculture - Soil Conservation Service, 2006, 3, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company; A Peter Davison Book, 1999 xii, 506 pages, illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Fine DJ. "In RIVER-HORSE, the preeminent chronicler of American back roads -- who has given us the classics BLUE HIGHWAYS and PRAIRYERTH -- recounts his singular voyage on American waters from sea to sea. Along the route, he offers a lyrical and ceaselessly fascinating shipboard perspective on the country's rivers, lakes, canals, and towns. Brimming with history, drama, humor, and wisdom, RIVER-HORSE belongs in the pantheon of American travel literature." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible., Houghton Mifflin Company; A Peter Davison Book, 1999, 4, (London: Alvin Redman, 1961). 8vo; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 264, incl. index; plates; large, folding colour map. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; corners slightly bumped; trace of light foxing. Good condition. "They travelled by luxury ship calling at Gibraltar, Genoa, Port Said and Cairo, where they stopped for a while and had a camel ride to the Pyramids. From Cairo they travelled on to Suez, Aden and to Mombasa where they spent a night on the slopes of Kilamanjaro. They visited the clove-scented Zanzibar and sailed on to Durban where they transferred ships. From Port Elizabeth they travelled by luxury coach along the Garden Route to Cape Town and then reluctantly began their journey home, their last port of call being Funchal in Madeira. As in all their highly popular holiday books, the Maises describe their experiences in two complementary diaries ..." ., (London: Alvin Redman, 1961), 0, Washington, D. C.: Cee Press Books, 1990. Stated 10th Printing, June 1990. Cee Press Books, George Washington University Book Condition: Very Good to Fine. Rust cloth covered boards with gilt letters on cover and spine. Sharp edges, corners with no wear to boards. 145 Bright, white pages with index are tightly bound. Text is clean and unmarked. Jacket: Good. Blue, yellow, and white illustration with black, yellow and red letters. DJ has light wear, nips, and tanning on edges. Author's photo on inside front flap. Book is a very nice, clean reading copy.. Hard Cover. Very Good to Fine/Good., Cee Press Books, 1990, 2.75, London: Stanley Paul, 1951 Boards clean, bright, tight as is entire copy. Blue/white map endpapers showing route of journey England-Australia by sea in 1951, for 1950-51 Tour. 4 crosswords, not filled in. 32 illustrations.No inscriptions. Edges lightly speckled. 176 pp. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Orange Cloth, Black Type.. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Profusely Illustrated Black and White Photographs. Hard Cover., Stanley Paul, 1951, 3, London: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good/Very Good. 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0340657391 Dust jacket unclipped. Blue cloth with bright gold titles to spine. No ownership markings. Black and white illustrations and photographs. 266 pages clean and tightly bound. This text lays out the options for coastal walking around England and Wales. From castle-dominated headlands to golden sandy bays, dunes and towering cliffs, Andrew McCloy proposes starting points, routes, weekend walks and Sunday afternoon walks, all divided into four regional sections. ., Hodder & Stoughton, 1996, 3, Shepperton: Ian Allan Limited, 1993. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 112 pages. 700g. Blue cloth boards Near FINE in a Very Good d/w with a repaired tear to top of spine. Illustrated with b/w photographs, gradient profiles, route maps and track plan.., Ian Allan Limited, 1993, 3.5, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1926. Book. Good. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Blue cloth binding, some fading on the spine, small minor spot of blue wax at the bottom of the front cover, the hinges are in good order. Bright and tidy internally, foxing to the frontispiece and tissue guard- a few faint foxing spots spots to the title fore-edge. With a frontispiece of HMS Swallow, and a full page black and white map of the route taken by HMS Swallow, Pages; XII, (2), 385. 20th century bookplate of naval historian R.J.B. Bright on the endpaper.., Frederick A. Stokes, 1926, 2.5, (Subject: Aviation - General) Good. No d/w. Blue boards rubbed. Previous owner name on endpaper.Signs of use but an interesting collection. A collection of aviation anecdotes from various sources, they relate to records, routes and wartime. (Published: 1943) (Publisher: Batsford) (Pagination: 164pp illustrations) (Condition: ) UL-XXXXXX, 0, Seattle , USA: The MOUNTAINEERS, 1996 1st US ed.FINE P/b1996. Book As New.no inscsp. no creasing. illustrated 38 b/w photographic plates.This thoughtful,amusing & moving account of part of his maverick life as a mountaineer. Joe Simpson , mountaineer & Award winning author of Touching the Void.illustrated 44 plates in colour & b/w [ mountaineering & climbing / exploration / new routes / true adventure] biblio; blue illus. Laminated coves.col photo of author to the back. Please see our image of the actual book offered for sale., The MOUNTAINEERS, 1996, 5, London: Ian Allan Limited, 1994. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 128 pages, 760g. Blue cloth boards As NEW in a FINE d/w. A history of the London & North-Eastern Railway before nationalisation and Lord Beeching. Fully illustrated with b/w photographs and route plans.., Ian Allan Limited, 1994, 5, Shepperton: Ian Allan Limited, 1989. Book. Near MINT. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 112 pages, 750g. Blue cloth boards Near MINT in a Near FINE d/w. Fully illustrated with colour and b/w drawings. The author examins the airlines background, looks into the many routes operated, and at the technical and engineering side that keeps it all moving.., Ian Allan Limited, 1989, 4.5, Secaucus, New Jersey: Castle Books, 1986. 474 pp. Please note, this is a very heavy book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping might be higher than normal. Blue boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband; illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. This collection contains: Chicago - 1875; The Workers of the Great Lakes - 1905; The Wisconsin Lakes - 1890; The City of Minneapolis - 1905; Jack Boyd: Master Riverman - 1907; The Last Wolverine - 1903; Across the Mesaba - 1896; De Kid Wot Works at Night - 1908; Yachting on the Great Lakes - 1900; Chicago's Great River Harbor - 1902; Chicago - Before the Fire - After the Fire - and Today - 1895; The Light Fantastic in the Central West - 1901; Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest - 1890; The Story of a Copper Mine - 1907; With Rod and Gun in Northwestern Woods and Waters - 1891; The Chicago Athletic Club - 1898; Life at Old Mackinac - 1909; A Clearing House for Tramps - 1908; Off Days on Superior's North Shore - 1903; The Dog Teams of the Soo - 1905; On the Little Bull Rapids - 1906; The University of Chicago - 1895; Following Deer Trails in Northwestern Woods - 1904; An Old Time Michigan Squirrel Shoot - 1903; The Skeleton on Round Island - 1898; Treed by Wolves - 1909; On the Great Lakes - 1898; Angling in the Middle West; The Making of the White City - 1892; The First Families of Chicago - 1909; Two Generations Under Freedom - 1903; Senator Robert M. La Follette - 1907; and The Water Route from Chicago to the Ocean - 1892.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo., Castle Books, 1986, 3, UNITED STATES: Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1999 Book. Good. Paperback. Withdrawn from the library collection in the reinforced covers. THE SCRIPT! Acting edition. Some library marking, stamp and card pocket. A library script is useful because the text flows clearly. Enjoy this reliable Acting Script.., Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1999, 2.5, New York, New York, U. S. A.: TV Books Inc, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good +. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Stated First Edition. Includes Chronology, Index And Bibliographical References. The Book Is Bound In Blue Cloth Over Boards With Gilt Lettering On The Spine. The Book Has Minor Wear. The Unclipped Jacket Has Moderate Rubbing And A One Inch Tear With Wrinkle At The Lower Back Edge., TV Books Inc, 1999, 3.25, Independently published, 2019-04-24. Paperback. Used: Good., Independently published, 2019-04-24, 2.5, HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.?* Date of Publication: Undated (1930)* Publisher: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Bright blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Minor bumps & rubs to edges, corners, head & tail of spine, a few small marks to boards. VG* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Neat owners name to ffep. (There is no publication date which may indicate that the half title has been removed.) Top edge gilt and fore-edge lightly foxed. Clean, crisp, and tight with light reading wear, no marks to text, slight offsetting to end papers, last few pages vertically creased, otherwise no visible faults. VG* Illustrations: Several b/w line drawings & musical extracts throughout.* Pages: 375 pp. text. i pp. nelsons logo at rear.* Description: Belloc?s best travel writing has secured a permanent following. The Path to Rome (1902), an account of a walking pilgrimage he made from central France across the Alps and down to Rome, has remained continuously in print. More than a mere travelogue, "The Path to Rome" contains descriptions of the people and places he encountered, his drawings in pencil and in ink of the route, humour, poesy (sentimental poetry), and the reflections of a large mind turned to the events of his time as he marches along his solitary way.* A VG copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS. No dust jacket.*, Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, 1930-01-01, 3, London: Ward Lock, 1998. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 192pp. 820g. Blue cloth boards V.G. with boartds a little rubbed to edges, but contents tight and clean, a V.G. slightly edge-rubbed d/w. Details 36 walks in Connacht, Leinster & Munster with route maps and relief diagrams. Illustrated in colour.., Ward Lock, 1998, 5, Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell. GOOD. Occasional markings. Binding sound. Owner's stamp. Dust Jacket has minor edgewear with small tears and sunning to spine.. 1960. Two-tone blue hardcover with gilt lettering. Dust jacket now protected in clear plastic BRODART cover. Original price to front endflap. 248pp., Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell, 2.5, Harper & Row 1967,, New York, 1967, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Small quarto, hardcover, VG in lightly edgeworn blue dj with white lettering. Endpapers give chronology from Nov. 20 to Nov. 25, hour by hour. Back endpapers show the route of the state funeral in Washington. 710 deckled pages. Book of the month club edition., Harper & Row 1967,, New York, 1967, 1967, 2.75, Helena,MT: FLACON PRESS GUIDE. Very Good. 1992. First Edition?. paperback. 9.0 X 6.0 X 0.7 inches. VERY GOOD Condition PAPERBACK,CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT..; cover shows white canval over old wooden wagon, SCOTTS bluff & blue sky in background..tan paper cover.. 2" cover cirlce blurb "1843-1993 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OREGON TRAIL RELIVE THE ADVENTURE.." ; 196 pages; 1800s, more than 300,000 Americans migrated westward on the famous Oregon Trail. Winding 2,000 miles from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, PLATTE RIVER ROUTES WEST. BOOK HAS several MAPS SHOWING TRAIL.. where to go; what to see; what to do along every section of the trail; trail history; ., FLACON PRESS GUIDE, 1992, 3, Center Conway, NH: Whitehorse Press. Very Good. 2005. first edition,1p; 54321pt line. Paperback. 8.9 X 6.0 X 0.7 inches. VERY GOOD CONDITION, CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT; White& Blue titles on red paper covers. 2 cycles on curve, rocky terrain photo.. ; 288 pages; A must-have travel book for those who long to take two wheels to the best of the open road Featuring trips from Whitehorse Press authors Clement Salvadori, Marty Berke, Dale Coyner and others, this full-color travel guide includes 40 detailed, topographic road maps to help riders follow the recommended routes and know what kind of terrain they'll encounter along the way. Include are trips in the Pacific Northwest, California, the Rocky Mountains and the Southwest, Texas, the Appalachians and the mid-Atlantic, and New England. ., Whitehorse Press, 2005, 3, Doubleday, 1985. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo, hardcover, fine in VG, lightly edgeworn, blue pictorial dj. clean and unmarked. First edition. 306 pp. a Red Cross medical ship carrying the wounded...The WW II hospital ship "San Andreas," en route from Halifax to Aberdeen laden with wounded soldiers, carries something more precious than her men and a saboteur determined to get it to the Germans..., Doubleday, 1985, 4, National Railway Historical Society, 1967. Paperback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Softcover: Light blue paper covers are spiral bound and slightly soiled. Title and vintage photo on front cover. Minor shelfwear. During the many years of electric operation, the Lehigh trolley routes were efficient with a colorful history. Fascinating Vintage photos. Nice tight spiral binding, National Railway Historical Society, 1967, 3, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. Very Good. Ellens, J. P.. Religious Routes to Gladstonian Liberalism : The Church Rate Conflict in England and Wales, 1832-1868. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. 301pp. Indexed. Bibliography. 8vo. Blue cloth. Book condition: Very good with very light bumps to spine ends.. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with extremely light bumps to extremities.., Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994, 3, Minotaur Books, 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Large, sturdy book, dark purple covers, very bright gilt lettering on spine, the route of the Inaugural Train in 1861. DJ heavy paper, a color-illustration of train locomotive at bottom front, a younger Lincoln at top front, raised blue title, praise from Harlen Corben, James M. McPherson, Katherine Neville and others. DJ has light white surface spots at top front right and bottom back left. Very Good DJ/Very Fine book., Minotaur Books, 2013, 4, NY Knopf 1982. Octavo, softcover, near fine in white and blue pictorial wreaps with mountain scene on cover. 389 pp. including index. Western trips can bring you gorgeous ocean vistas, challenging mountain passes, glorious desert sunsets and lots more. Gives you geography, road conditions, weather, routes, equipment, -- state by state from Washington to New Mexico., NY Knopf 1982, 0, Route. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., Route, 2.5<

2013, ISBN: 9781901927481

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NY: McGraw-Hill (l966) blue cloth, Octavo, 383pp., V.Good w/o dust jacket. Facsimile edition.. Hardcover. Slight wear., McGraw-Hill (l966), 0, New York: Appleton Century-Crofts, 1937. Cl… Mehr…

NY: McGraw-Hill (l966) blue cloth, Octavo, 383pp., V.Good w/o dust jacket. Facsimile edition.. Hardcover. Slight wear., McGraw-Hill (l966), 0, New York: Appleton Century-Crofts, 1937. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue hardcover boards with gold lettering on spine. Previous owner's name on end paper, no other marks or writings, boards and pages clean, binding and spine sound. One end paper page torn out, spine faded, mild wear to corners. 307 pp with index. Includes b/w photos, maps, charts and diagrams. V1, Appleton Century-Crofts, 1937, 2.5, Sourcebooks. Very Good. 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches. Paperback. 2013. 320 pages. <br>A New York Times bestseller For millions of peopl e, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even fearfu l experience. Patrick Smith, airline pilot and author of the web' s popular Ask the Pilot feature, separates the fact from fallacy and tells you everything you need to know... ?How planes fly, an d a revealing look at the men and women who fly them ?Straight ta lk on turbulence, pilot training, and safety ?The real story on c ongestion, delays, and the dysfunction of the modern airport ?The myths and misconceptions of cabin air and cockpit automation ?Te rrorism in perspective, and a provocative look at security ?Airfa res, seating woes, and the pitfalls of airline customer service ? The colors and cultures of the airlines we love to hate Cockpit Confidential covers not only the nuts and bolts of flying, but al so the grand theater of air travel, from airport architecture to inflight service to the excitement of travel abroad. It's a thoug htful, funny, at times deeply personal look into the strange and misunderstood world of commercial flying. It's the ideal book fo r frequent flyers, nervous passengers, and global travelers. Ref reshed and vastly expanded from the original Ask the Pilot, with approximately 75 percent new material. Editorial Reviews Review Brilliant...A book to be savored and passed to friends. -- Willi am Langewiesche, Vanity Fair Nobody covers the airline experienc e like Patrick Smith. He brings balance and clarity to a subject all too often over-hyped. And, he's a damned good writer. -- Cliv e Irving, Conde Nast Traveler I wish I could fold up Patrick Sm ith and put him in my suitcase. He seems to know everything worth knowing about flying. -- Stephen Dubner, coauthor of Freakonomic s Patrick Smith is extraordinarily knowledgeable about modern av iation, and communicates beautifully in English, not in pilot-ese . Th ideal seatmate, companion, writer and explainer. -- Alex Bea m, Boston Globe A brilliant writer, Patrick Smith provides a lau gh-a-page tour of a misunderstood industry -- a journey into the world of aviation, stripped of the mumbo-jumbo and filled with hu mor and insight. -- Christine Negroni, aviation correspondent and author of Flying Lessons Patrick Smith doesn't just know everyt hing about air travel, he possesses a rare knack for explaining i t in lucid and witty prose. -- Barbara Peterson, Condé Nast Trave ler Patrick Smith is one of the best writers around, period, whi ch certainly makes him by far the best writer ever to have earned a commercial pilot's license. A soaring accomplishment, indispen sable for anyone who travels by air, which means everyone. -- Jam es Kaplan Wonderful -- Rudy Maxa Patrick Smith manages to demys tify the experience and remind us of the magic of aviation. Also he has a great sense of humor - which is critical when you are we dged into seat 14D on a regional jet. -- Chris Bohjalian Brillia ntly down to earth and reassuring -- Cath Urquhart, The Times (Lo ndon) What a pleasure it is reading Patrick Smith's surprisingl y elegant explanations and commentary. The world needs somebody w riting E.B. White simple and sensible about a topic everyone has a question about. -- Berke Breathed Patrick Smith doesn't just know everything about air travel, he possesses a rare knack for e xplaining it in lucid and witty prose. -- Barbara Peterson, Con dé Nast TraveleCockpit Confidential is the document that belongs in the seat-back pocket in front of you. -- David Pogue, New Yor k Times correspondent and PBS television host About the Author P atrick Smith is a New York Times bestselling author, airline pilo t, air travel writer, and the host of www.askthepilot.com. He has visited more than seventy countries and always asks for a window seat. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. Excerpt. ® Reprint ed by permission. All rights reserved. Introduction The Painter 's Brush More than ever, air travel is a focus of curiosity, int rigue, anxiety, and anger. In the chapters that follow I will do my best to provide answers for the curious, reassurance for the a nxious, and unexpected facts for the deceived. It won't be easy, and I begin with a simple premise: everything you think you know about flying is wrong. That's an exaggeration, I hope, but not a n outrageous starting point in light of what I'm up against. Comm ercial aviation is a breeding ground for bad information, and the extent to which different myths, fallacies, and conspiracy theor ies have become embedded in the prevailing wisdom is startling. E ven the savviest frequent flyers are prone to misconstruing much of what actually goes on. It isn't surprising. Air travel is a c omplicated, inconvenient, and often scary affair for millions of people, and at the same time it's cloaked in secrecy. Its mysteri es are concealed behind a wall of specialized jargon, corporate r eticence, and an irresponsible media. Airlines, it hardly needs s aying, aren't the most forthcoming of entities, while journalists and broadcasters like to keep it simple and sensational. It's ha rd to know who to trust or what to believe. I'll give it my best shot. And in doing so, I will tell you how a plane stays in the air, yes. I'll address your nuts-and-bolts concerns and tackle th ose insufferable myths. However, this is not a book about flying, per se. I will not burden readers with gee-whiz specifications a bout airplanes. I am not writing for gearheads or those with a pr edisposed interest in planes; my readers don't want to see an aer ospace engineer's schematic of a jet engine, and a technical disc ussion about cockpit instruments or aircraft hydraulics is guaran teed to be tedious and uninteresting?especially to me. Sure, we'r e all curious how fast a plane goes, how high it flies, how many statistical bullet points can be made of its wires and plumbing. But as both author and pilot, my infatuation with flight goes bey ond the airplane itself, encompassing the fuller, richer drama of getting from here to there?the theater of air travel, as I like to call it. For most of us who grow up to become airline pilots, flying isn't just something we fell into after college. Ask any pilot where his love of aviation comes from, and the answer almos t always goes back to early childhood?to some ineffable, hard-wir ed affinity. Mine certainly did. My earliest crayon drawings were of planes, and I took flying lessons before I could drive. Just the same, I have never met another pilot whose formative obsessio ns were quite like mine. I have limited fascination with the sky or with the seat-of-the-pants thrills of flight itself. As a youn gster, the sight of a Piper Cub meant nothing to me. Five minutes at an air show watching the Blue Angels do barrel rolls, and I w as bored to tears. What enthralled me instead were the workings o f the airlines: the planes they flew and the places they went. I n the fifth grade I could recognize a Boeing 727-100 from a 727-2 00 by the shape of the intake of its center engine (oval, not rou nd). I could spend hours cloistered in my bedroom or at the dinin g room table, poring over the route maps and timetables of Pan Am , Aeroflot, Lufthansa, and British Airways, memorizing the names of the foreign capitals they flew to. Next time you're wedged in economy, flip to the route maps in the back of the inflight magaz ine. I could spend hours studying those three-panel foldouts and their crazy nests of city-pairs, immersed in a kind of junior pil ot porno. I knew the logos and liveries of all the prominent airl ines (and many of the nonprominent ones) and could replicate them freehand with a set of colored pencils. Thus I learned geograph y as thoroughly as I learned aviation. For most pilots, the world beneath those lines of the route map remains a permanent abstrac tion, countries and cultures of little or no interest beyond the airport fence or the perimeter of the layover hotel. For others, as happened to me, there's a point when those places become meani ngful. One feels an excitement not merely from the act of moving through the air, but from the idea of going somewhere. You're not just flying, you're traveling. The full, beautiful integration o f flight and travel, travel and flight. Are they not the same thi ng? To me they are. One can inspire the other, sure, but I never would have traipsed off to so many countries in my free time?from Cambodia to Botswana, Sri Lanka to Brunei?if I hadn't fallen in love with aviation first. If ever this connection struck me in a moment of clarity, it was a night several years ago during a vac ation to Mali, in West Africa. Though I could write pages about t he wonders and strangeness of West Africa, one of the trip's most vivid moments took place at the airport in Bamako, moments after our plane touched down from Paris. Two hundred of us descended t he drive-up stairs into a sinister midnight murk. The air was mis ty and smelled of woodsmoke. Yellow beams from military-style spo tlights crisscrossed the tarmac. We were paraded solemnly around the exterior of the aircraft, moving aft in a wide semicircle tow ard the arrivals lounge. There was something ceremonial and ritua listic about it. I remember walking beneath the soaring, blue-and -white tail of Air France, the plane's auxiliary turbine screamin g into the darkness. It was all so exciting and, to use a politic ally incorrect word, exotic. And that incredible airplane is what brought us there. In a matter of hours, no less?a voyage that on ce would have taken weeks by ship and desert caravan. The discon nect between air travel and culture seems to me wholly unnatural, yet we've seen a virtually clean break. Nobody gives a damn anym ore how you get there?the means coldly separated from the ends. F or most people, whether bound for Kansas or Kathmandu, the airpla ne is a necessary evil, incidental to the journey but no longer p art of it. An old girlfriend of mine, an artist who would have no trouble appreciating the play of light in a seventeenth-century painting by Vermeer, found my opinions utterly perplexing. Like m ost people, she analogized airplanes merely as tools. The sky was the canvas, she believed; the jetliner as discardable as the pai nter's brush. I disagree, for as a brush's stroke represents the moment of artistic inspiration, what is travel without the journe y? We've come to view flying as yet another impressive but ultim ately uninspiring technological realm. There I am, sitting in a B oeing 747, a plane that if tipped onto its nose would rise as tal l as a 20-story office tower. I'm at 33,000 feet over the Pacific Ocean, traveling at 600 miles per hour, bound for the Far East. And what are the passengers doing? Complaining, sulking, tapping glumly into their laptops. A man next to me is upset over a dent in his can of ginger ale. This is the realization, perhaps, of a fully evolved technology. Progress, one way or the other, mandate s that the extraordinary become the ordinary. But don't we lose v aluable perspective when we begin to equate the commonplace, more or less by definition, with the tedious? Aren't we forfeiting so mething important when we sneer indifferently at the sight of an airplane?at the sheer impressiveness of being able to throw down a few hundred dollars and travel halfway around the world at near ly the speed of sound? It's a tough sell, I know, in this age of long lines, grinding delays, overbooked planes, and inconsolable babies. To be clear, I am not extolling the virtues of tiny seats or the culinary subtlety of half-ounce bags of snack mix. The in dignities and hassles of modern air travel require little elabora tion and are duly noted. But believe it or not, there is still pl enty about flying for the traveler to savor and appreciate. I'm hesitant to say that we've developed a sense of entitlement, but it's something like that. Our technological triumphs aside, consi der also the industry's remarkable safety record and the fact tha t fares have remained startlingly cheap, even with tremendous sur ges in the price of fuel. Sure, years ago, passengers could enjoy a five-course meal served by a tuxedoed flight attendant before retiring to a private sleeping berth. My first airplane ride was in 1974: I remember my father in a suit and tie and double helpin gs of fresh cheesecake on a ninety-minute domestic flight. The th ing was, getting on a plane was expensive. This will be lost on m any people today, young people especially, but once upon a time, college kids didn't zip home for a few days over Christmas. You d idn't grab a last minute seat for $99 and pop over to Las Vegas?o r to Mallorca or Phuket?for a long weekend. Flying was a luxury, and people indulged sporadically, if at all. In 1939, aboard Pan Am's Dixie Clipper, it cost $750 to fly round-trip between New Yo rk and France. That's equal to well over $11,000 in today's money . In 1970, it cost the equivalent of $2,700 to fly from New York to Hawaii. Things changed. Planes, for one, became more efficien t. Aircraft like the 707 and the 747 made long-haul travel afford able to the masses. Then the effects of deregulation kicked in, c hanging forever the way airlines competed. Fares plummeted, and p assengers poured in. Yes, flying became more aggravating and less comfortable. It also became affordable for almost everybody. I have learned never to underestimate the contempt people hold for airlines and the degree to which they hate to fly. While some of this contempt is well deserved, much of it is unfair. Today a pas senger can, in a backpack and flip-flops, traverse the oceans for the equivalent of a few pennies per mile, in near-perfect safety and with an 85 percent chance of arriving on time. Is that reall y such an awful way to travel? Meanwhile, if you're that insatiab ly eager to revisit those luxurious indulgences of aviation's gol den years, well, you can do that too, by purchasing a first or bu siness class ticket?for less than what it cost fifty years ago. < /div ., Sourcebooks, 2013, 3, Route. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects., Route, 3<

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Route Publishing, Taschenbuch, 256 Seiten, Publiziert: 2012-10-15T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 0.45 kg, Verkaufsrang: 94235, Gegenwartsliteratur, Literatur & Fiktion, Kategorien, Büche… Mehr…

Route Publishing, Taschenbuch, 256 Seiten, Publiziert: 2012-10-15T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 0.45 kg, Verkaufsrang: 94235, Gegenwartsliteratur, Literatur & Fiktion, Kategorien, Bücher, Unterhaltungsliteratur, Thriller & Suspense, Krimis & Thriller, Route Publishing, 2012<