A celebration of mankind's quest for supremacy on the land, at sea and in the air over the past century. The text covers the period from the first Paris-Bordeaux road race in 1895 to the most recent attempt on the land speed record, from Orville and Wilbur Wright's first powered flight in 1903 to Neil Armstrong's moonwalk in 1969 and the Mir space station, from the Blue Riband transatlantic liners to the first solo, non-stop circumnavigation of the world, and from steam locomotives to Bullet trains.
- ISBN10 0747537712
- ISBN13 9780747537717
- Publish Date 8 October 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 December 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English
- URL http://bloomsbury.com/Trade/