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TRANSPORTED: 50 VEHICLES THAT

VIVA LA VEHICLE REVOLUTION

AUTHOR MATT RALPHS

ILLUSTRATOR RUI RICARDO

PUBLISHER NOSY CROW

PRICE £18.99 (APPROX $22.80)

RELEASE 1 SEPTEMBER

Along time ago, our primate ancestors stood up, walked and then realised that getting to places was literally the way to get by in life. Ever since we’ve sought out more efficient ways of travelling by inventing vehicles that could quickly take us to our destinations, or even take us to places that would otherwise be completely inaccessible to us. Author Matt Ralphs celebrates the ingenious ways we’ve discovered to better get around with d, which cherrypicks a wide range of driving, floating and flying vehicles from the last 10,000 years or so. We’re reliably informed that Matt lives on a canal boat called

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