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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.222
EAN num: 9788854400818
ISBN number: 8854400815
Label: White Star
Manufacturer: White Star
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 300
Printing Date: September 27, 2005
Publishing house: White Star
Release Date: September 27, 2005
Sale Popularity Level: 482935
Studio: White Star
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Over 400 dazzling colour photographs and an entertaining narrative tell the tale of our love affair with cars-from the earliest Tin Lizzies to such automotive achievements as the Alfa Romeo, Porsche, Lincoln Continental, Ferrari, Jaguar, Corvette, and Pontiac GTO. Famous car photographers capture the elegance and excitement of each vehicle, while the stories behind the cars let us relive the adventures of designing and driving these marvels. Together they make an exciting history of the technological trends and designs that led to today's indispensable, stylish, and efficient automobile.The story concentrates on the most important car models produced in terms of social, aesthetic, and technological advances. From dream cars to road cars, this book captures the most stirring blends of technology, art, and beauty. Filled with a sense of adventure, it takes us on a fun spin through popular culture and into the future of automobiles.
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At very first glance, it is an impressive book with outstanding photographs of the cars reviewed. Each car gets two to four pages of text (albiet, most of the page space is photography) and does a reasonable job of giving an overview of the vehicle.
Now for the negatives. I honestly don't think this book was edited. It has so many typos it is difficult to read. I have seen very first drafts of 8th grade research papers that had less grammatical and spelling errors. This is the worst I have ever seen in a formally published work.
Secondly, when I got the book, the binding was crisp and tight. By the time I finished reading it, the pages were falling out of the spine. It is the most poorly assembled book I have owned. It's going in my library, but I'm afraid to open it again.
I cannot recommend this book unless you just want it for the pictures, and to use the pictures to hang on the wall since they seem to fall out on their own anyway.
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