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| Title: | Royal Transport
: An Inside Look at the History of Royal Travel |
| Author: | Peter Pigott |
| ISBN: | 1550025724 : 9781550025729 |
| Illustrations: | 100 colour & b/w illus |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 250x250mm |
| Pages: | 236 |
| Weight: | 1.075 Kg. |
| Published: | Dundurn Press - February 2006 |
| List Price: | 26 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Biography: royalty: TRANSPORT: GENERAL INTEREST: Canada |
The conveyance of royalty, whether to Balmoral or Buffalo, by Rolls Royce or Canadian Pacific train, has its own mysterious traditions and protocols. With dry humour and a keen sense of history, Peter Pigott describes how the British royal family has adapted to technological innovations. Organised thematically, the book is packed with well-researched details. We know all about the royal family's lives, especially their romances and scandals, but do we know who was the first monarch to drive a motorcar? The first to fly in an aircraft? Which king so loved his yacht that he ordered it scuttled on his death? The book offers a fascinating look at how British royalty has travelled since the invention of steam. This richly illustrated book covers all modes of royal transport in Britain and the Commonwealth -- some of the most famous and yet unknown transport in the world.
