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What is it about an engine roaring into life that makes grown men go weak at the knees?--find out in this light-hearted look at one man's overwhelming obsession with machines This is a book about machines and the men who love them. Some of these men are quite odd. Having always been a mechanophobe himself, living in the slow lane, Dan Kieran is on a mission to discover the allure of machines and man's need for speed. Follow Dan as he climbs aboard a penny-farthing for a jaunt around west London, drives a steam train through the "alps," joins the pit lane crew of Mitsubishi for the Britcar 24-hour race at Silverstone, discovers the link between Lawrence of Arabia and the "wall of death," meets tank collectors and the men behind "digger ballet," learns to fly in the shadow of Douglas Bader, and, along the way, wrestles with Aristotle, Jeremy Clarkson, Plato, Hunter S. Thompson, and, mostly, himself. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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He spends a day on a narrow boat, tries to ride a penny farthing, watches a 12 hour lawn mower race, avoids the gaze of hell angels at a motorcycle meet. He specs a couple of data with steam enthusiasts from the Great Dorset Steam Fair to the and working as a fireman with the guys on the Watercress line. A day tank driving and one dancing with diggers and he is ready to overcome his fear of flying, or is he?
And does he get it in the end? Youu'll have to read it to find out, but he does get a greater insight as to why these men, and is is almost exclusively men, do this and what they gain from it. ( )