Description
Product ID: | 9781474615419 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Car |
Subtitle: | The rise and fall of the machine that made the modern world |
Authors: | Author: Bryan Appleyard |
Page Count: | 320 |
Subjects: | History of engineering and technology, History of engineering & technology |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The new book from the award-winning SUNDAY TIMES journalist Brian Appleyard. This is a spirited exploration of cars and their cultural impact throughout their petrol or diesel-driven 150 years More than any other technology, cars have transformed our culture. Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of freedom and mobility. They have transformed our sense of distance and made the world infinitely more available to our eyes and our imaginations. They have inspired cinema, music and literature; they have, by their need for roads, bridges, filling stations, huge factories and global supply chains, re-engineered the world. Almost everything we now need, want, imagine or aspire to assumes the existence of cars in all their limitless power and their complex systems of meanings. |
Imprint Name: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Publisher Name: | Orion Publishing Co |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-03-16 |