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Crash!: Travel Mishaps and Calamities
Robert Reed
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Description for Crash!: Travel Mishaps and Calamities
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, 182 b/w photos. BIC Classification: MBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 278 x 15. Weight in Grams: 868.
With over 150 photos, many full page and of historical, national, and international importance, this book captures on film wrecks and crashes of all kinds: air, highway, railway, and water as well as accidents involving trucks, buses, cars, light planes, jetliners, seaplanes, freight trains, and ships. European wrecks, Asian wrecks, and American wrecks are also well represented. This book adds to the intriguing iconography of travel accidents introduced by the first volume, Smashups. You are invited here to pore over the photographs and captions and experience the thrill of danger in the comfort and safety of your own home.
With over 150 photos, many full page and of historical, national, and international importance, this book captures on film wrecks and crashes of all kinds: air, highway, railway, and water as well as accidents involving trucks, buses, cars, light planes, jetliners, seaplanes, freight trains, and ships. European wrecks, Asian wrecks, and American wrecks are also well represented. This book adds to the intriguing iconography of travel accidents introduced by the first volume, Smashups. You are invited here to pore over the photographs and captions and experience the thrill of danger in the comfort and safety of your own home.
Product Details
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764308130
SKU
V9780764308130
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-2
About Robert Reed
Robert Reed is an adjunct professor of English at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. Mr. Reed has written earlier books about train wrecks, streamline industrial design, the New York City elevated railroad system, and 19th-century Washington, DC.
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