From the first foot migration out of Africa to the Model T Ford, hot air balloons, submarines, rickshaws, and moon rockets, humans have combined imagination, daring, and scientific and technical knowledge to improve existing vehicles or create new ones. Geography, culture, and available technologies have all influenced the development and use of vehicles in different parts of the world, and human travel has, in turn, often had a profound influence on society and the environment.
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Product Details
Weight: 600g
Dimensions: 168 x 241mm
Publication Date: 01 Jul 2019
Publisher: Tilbury HouseU.S.
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780884484912
About Paula Grey
Paula Grey is a former grant writer software technical writer and technical editor. She has written a variety of short fiction and nonfiction and this is her first published work. Paula enjoys traveling by land sea or air whenever she gets the opportunity. Phillip Hoose is the widely acclaimed author of books essays stories songs and articles including the National Book Award - and Newbery Honor - winning book Claudette Colvin: Twice toward Justice and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor winner The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club. A graduate of Indiana University and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences Hoose was for 37 years a staff member of The Nature Conservancy dedicated to preserving the plants animals and natural communities of the Earth.