16%OFF
Why Not?: The Story of the Honourable Charles Stuart Rolls
David Baines
€ 57.91
€ 48.66
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Why Not?: The Story of the Honourable Charles Stuart Rolls
Hardcover.
Charles Rolls was the first Englishman to be killed in an air crash. He was thirty years old. Rolls' death shocked the country and made headlines across the world. His relative youth at the time is perhaps the reason that he is a forgotten hero; a man who today receives little credit for the legacy that he left behind, even though at the time of his death on July 12th 1910 he was one of the most famous men in the country. His loss was regarded as a national tragedy. Today he is most famous for the partnership he forged ... Read more
Charles Rolls was the first Englishman to be killed in an air crash. He was thirty years old. Rolls' death shocked the country and made headlines across the world. His relative youth at the time is perhaps the reason that he is a forgotten hero; a man who today receives little credit for the legacy that he left behind, even though at the time of his death on July 12th 1910 he was one of the most famous men in the country. His loss was regarded as a national tragedy. Today he is most famous for the partnership he forged ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Dalton Watson Fine Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
307
Place of Publication
Loughborough, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781854432247
SKU
V9781854432247
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About David Baines
David Baines was born in 1965 in London and was educated at Kingsbrook College in Northamptonshire. He began racing Karts at the age of fourteen having raised sponsorship from the Parish Rector. Super Karts and then Formula Ford followed but tests in Formula Three and Touring Cars led nowhere. Subsequently he instructed extensively at racing schools across the country and ... Read more
Reviews for Why Not?: The Story of the Honourable Charles Stuart Rolls