{"product_id":"landscape-with-machines-vol-1","title":"Landscape With Machines Vol 1 By Rolt, L T C","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eL.T.C. Rolt’s fame was born from his unique ability to produce works of literature from subject matter seemingly ill suited to such treatment – engineering, canals, railways, steam engines, agricultural machinery, vintage cars – such as in his classic biographies of Brunel, Telford, Trevithick and the Stephensons, and in his superbly written volumes of autobiography. \u003c\/b\u003eIn this, the first part of his autobiography, Rolt tells of his childhood in Chester, on the Welsh border near Hay-on-Wye and in Gloucestershire; of an engineering apprenticeship and career which took him from a farm in the Vale of Evesham to a locomotive works in Stoke-on-Trent and from Dursley to the Wiltshire Downs until he finally settled in a Hampshire village, running a garage which specialised in veteran and vintage cars. Imbued with the author’s love of England and his intense feeling for the beauties of the English countryside, the book reveals a landscape populated not only be men, but by machines: steam-ploughing engines, steam wagons, steam locomotives, canal boats and a variety of unusual motor cars. This vividly told tale of rural England sets the stage of a life that was to be consumed by preserving the best the country had to offer in landscape and the technology of a now bygone age.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57744600433022,"sku":"NW9780750970167","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780750970167.jpg?v=1784923308","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/landscape-with-machines-vol-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}