A History of Britain's Transport
Jeremy Black$36.51
$42.95
Covers the evolution of transport history, from walking and packhorses to modern rail, motoring, and air travel.
An accessible book to draw on popular interest in transport history, routes, vehicles and experiences. Transport history is social and industrial national history. Passengers and freight will be covered including all types of transport from walking and packhorses, that predominated for much of national history, both of which tend to be underrated, to changes brought by improvements to road transport from the Romans to medieval bridgebuilders and eighteenth-century turnpikes, and, in parallel, river, coastal and canal travel, again from the Romans to the eighteenth century. The story moves to the age of rail, motoring and lastly air. All forms overlap. as well as being sequential.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
Published: 03/06/2025
ISBN: 9781036109561
Pages: 224
An accessible book to draw on popular interest in transport history, routes, vehicles and experiences. Transport history is social and industrial national history. Passengers and freight will be covered including all types of transport from walking and packhorses, that predominated for much of national history, both of which tend to be underrated, to changes brought by improvements to road transport from the Romans to medieval bridgebuilders and eighteenth-century turnpikes, and, in parallel, river, coastal and canal travel, again from the Romans to the eighteenth century. The story moves to the age of rail, motoring and lastly air. All forms overlap. as well as being sequential.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
Published: 03/06/2025
ISBN: 9781036109561
Pages: 224