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The allure of beautiful and rare cars is timeless, since the dawn of the automotive age people have aspired to own and drive the fastest, the coolest, and the most expensive cars. Million Dollar Classics-The World's Most Expensive Cars is a lavish photographic collection of some of the most sought after models that have been made available for auction in recent years. All of the cars featured in this elegant book attained auction prices upwards of $1,000,000, making them the most desired cars in the world, as well as the most expensive. Captured on camera by specialist automobile photographer Simon Clay the stunning images in this book are accompanied by an informative text that gives the reader the specs, history and other fascinating details of these dream vehicles.

When Karl Benz introduced the world's first automobile in 1886, he had no idea of the impact his invention would have on life on earth. The Mini Car Bible: the ultimate photo book (400 pages) for car lovers who appreciate the beauty of automotive design. This exquisite collection of photographs portrays the most iconic cars in history, from classic models to more recent super cars. When Karl Benz introduced the world's first automobile in 1886, he had no idea of the impact his invention would have on life on earth. The Mini Car Bible: the ultimate photo book (400 pages) for car lovers who appreciate the beauty of automotive design. This exquisite collection of photographs portrays the most iconic cars in history, from classic models to more recent super cars.

Mini Watch Bible, the new substantial reference book about the world's most remarkable time pieces. This highly imaginative work shows you hundreds of photographs of stunning luxury watch designs.

Surely one of the most luxurious images in our collective imagination is that of a streamlined vessel crossing the blue line of the sea's horizon. This book is the ultimate showcase for those who dream of experiencing sea cruising in absolute luxury. This exquisite collection of photographs shares with you a feeling of limitless and luxurious freedom that can only be experienced on the open sea. 400 pages are filled with superb colour photographs. Aerial shots, exterior and interior views showcase 90 of the very best sailing yachts and motor yachts available in the world today.

By the second half of the 20th century, the motorcycle had been transformed from a cheap and basic form of motoring to a symbol of liberty and the desire to rebel against social conventions. This pictorial book offers and intriguing and unusual foray into celebrities' close relationships with their bikes. More than 120 fabulous images, unpublished photographs, movie stills and paparazzi shots reveal the stars' ongoing love affair with the bike from the 1950s to today. Featured A-list bike owners include pop and rock stars, cinema idols, and divas and celebrities from all the media, including Marlon Brando, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, Steve McQueen, Meatloaf and the Jackson Five.

This richly illustrated encyclopedia of classic and contemporary American railroads features consise histories of 101 U.S. and Canadian railroads past and present. Illustrated with period and modern photography in both color and black and white, evocative print ads, and system maps, each profile is also accompanied by one or more fact boxes offering details on the railroads' geographic scope, hardware, and freight and passenger operations.

Spanning more than a century and a half, this giant compendium of “fallen flags,” Class I behemoths, classic regional carriers, and transportation icons is sure to become the go-to compendium for railfans of all stripes.

Owning a yacht is the ultimate status symbol. Universally perceived as the exclusive domain of the rich and the famous, yachting is a decidedly rarified world. Arguably the most well-known private yacht of all time, the 325-foot (99-meter) Christina O, owned by Aristotle Onassis in the 1950s and 60s, was the playground for heads of state such as Winston Churchill and the Kennedys, opera diva Maria Callas, and Hollywood sweethearts such as Ava Gardner and Elizabeth Taylor. Pictured here along with the newly rebuilt Christina O are 20 other mega-yachts, including the newly completed and wildly colorful Guilty, designed by Jeff Koons for the art collector Dakis Joannou; Tom Perkins’ modern sailing yacht Maltese Falcon, the ultramodern sailing yacht Esense, and the refit classic Delphine.

The yachts pictured here are special for many reasons: because they are the fastest, or the most innovative, or the most technologically advanced, or because of their travels to exotic locations around the globe. Outrageous Yachts provides information about the yachts’ builders and designers, and tours each of the magnificent vessels — ranging in size from 138 to 424 feet (42 to 129 meters) — from stem to stern. This volume promises to be irresistible to anyone who has a yacht or dreams of owning one.
Notes:
Annual maintenance usually runs to 15 percent of the cost of a yacht
Today there are approximately 6,000 yachts that exceed 100 feet (31 meters) in the world

About the Authors:

Jill Bobrow is Editor in Chief of ShowBoats International, the world’s premiere luxury yacht publication. Previously, she was Founding Editor of Boat International USA magazine. She has co-authored more than a dozen books, including Classic Yacht Interiors and The World’s Most Extraordinary Yachts, and has cruised on many renowned yachts in countless locales around the world.

Kenny Wooton is Executive Editor of ShowBoats International. Formerly Editor in Chief of Yachting magazine, he has been a journalist for marine magazines for most of his career. A lifelong yachting enthusiast, his work has taken him to exotic yachting destinations all over the world.

Dana Jinkins is co-founder, art director, and principal photographer of Concepts Publishing Inc., which specializes in books on yachts and yachting destinations worldwide. Her photography appears regularly in international yachting, travel, and lifestyle magazines and books.

George Nicholson, chairman of Camper & Nicholsons International, the world’s oldest leisure marine company, is one of the most widely cruised and knowledgeable super-yachtsmen in the world.

P&O: Across the Oceans, Across the Years is a beautifully compiled book illustrated with over 200 images from the P&O Heritage Collection
An engaging and richly illustrated homage to one of the most famous companies afloat, in its 175th anniversary year
Features all the details of life on board, from the food menus and tickets, to the marine paintings and silver
Official campaign book for the Peninsular & Oriental (P&O) Company

A nostalgic glance astern at the glory days of Peninsular & Oriental (P&O) both at sea and on shore. Drawing on personal recollections in the archives of P&O Heritage, Ruth Artmonsky looks back at the company during the age of empire and a bygone time when travelling P&O captured the imagination of writers from Thackeray to Noël Coward. In addition the book takes a curator's tour of the company's art collection which dates back to P&O's foundation in 1837.

Noblesse oblige - this has been true for nearly 80 years now. The cult brand and the “Made in Germany” cars have stood for the perfect balance of power and elegance - and rightly so: about 70 percent of all Porsches ever built are still on the road today, and to this day, all the generations of those striking cars are still eyecatchers in the streets of the world. The small corporation has been defending its pole position with a great sense of quality and passion. They do not build sports cars in order to win races; rather, they participate in races in order to improve their sports cars. Porsche has won the world’s toughest race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, more often than any other manufacturer. This book portrays both Porsche’s unique success stories in the motor sports arena and their boldly innovative design and style. The plentiful highquality illustrations by renowned photographer Rainer W. Schlegelmilch and the informative texts by Hartmut Lehbrink will fascinate any fan of cars and motor sports.

Rainer W. Schlegelmilch studied photography and design in Munich and opened an advertising photography studio in 1964. Even during his studies, he discovered his passion for motor sports and fast cars, a passion that is clearly reflected in his photographs.
Hartmut Lehbrink is the author of a great number of books on cars. Lehbrink, who studied German and English language and literature, developed his interest in cars when the Silver Arrows made their appearance in Spa, Zandvoort and at the Nürburgring.

Noblesse oblige - this has been true for nearly 80 years now. The cult brand and the "Made in Germany" cars have stood for the perfect balance of power and elegance - and rightly so: about 70 percent of all Porsches ever built are still on the road today, and to this day, all the generations of those striking cars are still eyecatchers in the streets of the world.

The small corporation has been defending its pole position with a great sense of quality and passion. They do not build sports cars in order to win races; rather, they participate in races in order to improve their sports cars. Porsche has won the world’s toughest race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, more often than any other manufacturer.

This book portrays both Porsche’s unique success stories in the motor sports arena and their boldly innovative design and style. The plentiful highquality illustrations by renowned photographer Rainer W. Schlegelmilch and the informative texts by Hartmut Lehbrink will fascinate any fan of cars and motor sports.

A modern collector’s guide to a world of outlandish retro watches

Retro Watches is a popular, accessible collector’s guide for anyone who wants to make a statement with the watch they wear, but who wants to choose a timepiece that is very different from the ‘classic’ and very mainstream watches by the major Swiss brands. It brings together the most intriguing, visually striking and ‘out-there’ watch designs from little-known but influential watch brands, along with overlooked but brilliant pieces from the major players. One hundred watch models are featured, specially photographed for the book and accompanied by accessible, informative texts discussing the watch’s design, its intriguing features, and its rarity and value. The book also dives into the cultural and fashion history of watch design and the many innovations from the 60s, 70s and 80s.

• Features over 100 easily affordable curiosities and brilliantly designed but forgotten classics
• Spans the late 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, the golden age of avant-garde watchmaking and experimentation
• Includes features on the history of watch design and aesthetics

About the Authors:

Josh Sims is a design writer based in Margate. He is the editor of social trends journal Viewpoint and author of several books on menswear, including Icons of Men’s Style.
Mitch Greenblatt is the co-owner and founder of Xeric Watches, Horolovox and watches.com.

It is 1842: Pietro, a skilled caulker, leaves Lake Como and settles at Sarnico on Lake Iseo. This was the start of the Riva adventure. First he built fishing boats, then steamboats, followed by his first speedboats and pleasure boats. In the 1950s and 1960s the Riva Boatyard was internationally successful and the motorboats produced by Carlo, the latest embodiment of the family spirit, eclipsed the reputation of imported watercraft. The period that followed saw a marked evolution in the principles of design and construction of pleaseure craft. Materials changed, there were new technologies and uses.

The boats launched at Sarnico were designer products, appreciated for their form, the quality of their engines and the care lavished on the details of construction. In May 2000 Ferretti Spa, in the person of the president Norberto Ferretti, took over the yard with a clear commitment to safeguard and develop Riva's corporate culture.

Aquariva now paid tribute to Aquarama, reinventing its type and "embodying the principle of the evolution of the Riva guidelines in the most advanced technological scenario". There followed founding models such as Rivarama and Rivale, Ego, Ego Super and Sportriva.

In the pages of this book, Decio Giulio Riccardo Carugati relates, in his characteristic manner, a story, the history of a legend, the evolution of a myth. Refined illustrations present the finest images of some of the best-known craft and the people who have helped to create the intriguing and fascinating world of yachting in over a century.

The name Rolex is recognized around the world. It has become an icon of beauty, quality, accuracy, style, and taste. While there are other fine manufacturers of timepieces, none has reached this pinnacle of public respect and acclaim. The watches produced by Rolex over the last 100 years are celebrated in this lavishly illustrated classic, now in a revised and expanded third edition. Over 30 newly discovered wristwatches are included in this volume, along with new information and a revised value guide. In addition there are detailed looks at some of Rolex's legendary movements. Dowling and Hess, both acknowledged Rolex authorities, have captured the watches' beauty in color photography and present the most thorough and extensive history written of the company. The watches and the extensive information this book offeres to collectors make it a truly useful volume, one that will be cherished by watch lovers around the world.

Sailing is a philosophy of life that seems to bring out the best in human nature. Everything depends on the interplay of nature and man so that sailing yachts can glide powerfully through the waves. They fulfil the desire for freedom and adventure as well as luxury and relaxation.

This illustrated volume represents an exclusive selection of 40 sailing yachts showing the latest maritime trends, styles and visions. Designers and shipyards have devised fascinating new approaches to meet the challenges posed by the forces of wind and water as well as the demands for increased speed and style. Whether the refurbished classic that has sailed the seas for decades, the minimalist lightweight racer or the luxury 141-meter cruiser, every boat has her story to tell.

From the content:

- Bracuda (Perini Navi with Ron Holland and John Pawson)
- Rainbow (Starling Burgess Design with Dykstra Naval Architects)
- Kokomo (Dubois Naval Architects with Redman Whiteley Dixon)
- Sea Cloud (Cox & Stevens)
- Chrisco (Luca Brenta with Wetzels Brown Partners)