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Kevin Desmond, a technology historian and biographer, lives near Bordeaux in southern France. Since 1976, he has published 27 books and 300-plus articles on the men and women innovators, often forgotten, behind the progress of transport and related subjects.

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The three hundred black and white photographic illustrations, advertised on the back-cover as selected among more thean four thousand, are all lousily reproduced. The darkest part are never very dark, but still puts a lot of details in total darkness. The light parts having the same effect, details being etched out in a bright fog. The haphazard way the pictures are being arranged on the pages, seemingly without any graphic relation to each other, does not make for much visual exitement either. Sad, because many of the photographs deserved a lot better treatment. The book is of some size and weight, and gives the impression of being bound, but it is not.… (meer)
 
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jahn | Sep 13, 2018 |

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Werken
19
Leden
102
Populariteit
#187,251
Waardering
½ 3.3
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2
ISBNs
34

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