A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel to the Car to What Comes Next

ISBN-13: 9781526608314 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 272 str.

Standage Tom Standage

Opis

From the New York Times bestselling author comes a timely and illuminating history of personal transportation, and how it has transformed the world we live in.

Recenzje

Speckled with anecdotes, insights and surprises . . . It is great fun - and utterly timely Sunday Times

O autorze

Tom Standage is deputy editor of the Economist and the author of six previous history books, including Writing on the Wall, the New York Times bestsellers A History of the World in 6 Glasses and An Edible History of Humanity, and The Victorian Internet, a history of the telegraph. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, Wired, and other publications. Standage holds a degree in engineering and computer science from Oxford University. He lives in London. @TomStandage