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The author's harrowing and critically acclaimed first book chronicles his year riding with the Hell's Angels and other motorcycle gangs, an "experiment" that ended when he was beaten nearly to death by a group of Angels. 20,000 first printing. NYT.

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A dramatic rescue-at-sea account traces the 1952 coast guard attempt to save the crews of two oil tankers caught in a violent nor'easter off the coast of Cape Cod, a mission recounted by first-hand survivors that describes the heroic undertakings of the teams aboard small crafts that came to their aid.

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The development of steamboats is traced from the birth of the Age of Steam in England and America's first steamboat, which crossed the Delaware River in 1787. By the author of <IT>Steam Locomotives: Whistling, Chugging, Smoking Iron Horses of the Past. <RO>

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A chilling account by an ATF agent describes his undercover assignment to infiltrate the Hells Angels motorcycle gang, detailing the challenges of working his way up the biker gang's hierarchy and maintaining their hard-won trust, the difficulties of leading a double life, and the operation that nearly cost him everything. 60,000 first printing.

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At last, the beloved story of the little tugboat who proves himself a hero when he single-handedly rescues a stranded ocean liner is adapted in a die-cut board book that's perfect for babies. Faithfully retold, illustrated with ultra-appealing artwork, and die-cut into a tugboat's shape on durable board pages. Full color.

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Fascinating and factual accounts of the world's most recent and compelling crashes <p>Industry insiders James Walters and Robert Sumwalt, trained aviation accident investigators and commercial airline pilots, offer expert analyses of notable and recent aircraft accidents in this eye-opening, lesson-filled case file. Culled from final reports issued by military and foreign government investigations, as well as additional research and resources, Aircraft Accident Analysis tells the final and full tales of doomed flights that stopped the world cold in their wake. <p>Technical accuracy and details, presented in layman's language, help to clarify: <p>· Major accidents from commercial, military, and general aviation flights <br>· Pilot backgrounds and flight histories <br>· Chronology of events leading to each accident <br>· Description of aviation investigation process <br>· Insight into NTSB, military, and foreign government findings <br>· Resulting recommendations, requirements, and policy changes <br>· Preview summaries of accidents too recent for final reports are also highlighted. <p>Readable, authoritative, and complete, <i>Aircraft Accident Analysis: Final Reports</i> is at once an important reference tool and a riveting, what-went-wrong look at air safety for everyone who flies. <p>Featured final and preview reports include: <p>U.S. Air Force, U.S Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, Dubrovnik, Croatia <br>Jessica Dubroff, Cheyenne, Wyoming <br>Valujet Airlines 592, Everglades, Florida <br>American Airlines 955, Cali, Columbia <br>John Denver, Pacific Grove, California <br>Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Carrollton, Georgia <br>US Air 427, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania <br>TWA 800, Long Island, New York <br>Delta Air Lines, LaGuardia Airport, New York <br>John F. Kennedy, Jr., Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts

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<P>Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities, including commuting, manufacturing, or supplying energy.<br><br><i>The Geography of Transport Systems </i>is concerned about movements along with the infrastructures, institutions and corporations supporting them. It tries to link spatial constraints and attributes with the origin, the destination, the extent, the nature and the purpose of movements. It is divided in nine chapters, each covering a specific conceptual dimension including networks, modes terminals, international transportation, urban transportation and environmental impacts. Each chapter also covers methodologies linked with transport geography such as accessibility, spatial interactions, graph theory and Geographic Information Systems for transportation. <br><br>Aimed at an undergraduate audience, the text provides a comprehensive introduction to the field with a broad overview of its concepts, methods and areas of application. A particular emphasis has been placed in the development of web based didactic material that can be incorporated in lectures such as PowerPoint slides, exercises, databases and GIS datasets.</P>

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A complete guide to touring Europe by train offers a country by country, city by city handbook that provides information on schedules, fares, destinations, rail passes, tourist facilities, and hotel accommodations; outlines day trips and longer itineraries from twenty-four base cities on the continent; and provides directions on how to get to and from stations. Original.

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The best-selling author of <IT>The Great Railway Bazaar<RO> revisits the past as he journeys through Eastern Europe, Central Asia, India, China, Japan, and Siberia on a train ride of adventure, political observations, and cultural curiosities that reveals the dramatic changes that have occurred since the writing of the original travelogue.

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"Guaranteed to blow readers away...A+."<BR>--Entertainment Weekly October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"--a tempest that may happen only once in a century--a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to inconcievable levels few people on Earth have ever witnessed. Few, except the six-man crew of the Andrea Gail, a commercial fishing boat tragically headed towards its hellish center. With a New Afterword by the Author <BR>"A superb book."<BR>--Washington Post Book World

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A follow-up to <IT>Dangerous Ground <RO>finds former naval pilot and submarine captain Jerry Mitchell on a reconnaissance mission deep in the Barents Sea and struggling to outmaneuver a surprise submarine attack that damages both vessels and strands them on the bottom of the ocean.

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Traveling to the wedding of his estranged daughter and left stranded in O'Hare Airport when his flight is cancelled, Bennie Ford, a fifty-three-year-old failed poet and translator, begins writing a letter of complaint to the airline that evolves into a painful lament for a life that has gone badly awry. Reprint.

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Byron Barton's best-selling series of transportation books are now available as classic board books. Boats, Planes, Trains, and Trucks feature simple text and vibrant illustrations that are sure to spark the interest of even the youngest of readers. "... will delight the youngest, and have enough meat for older preschoolers and beginning readers". -- Kirkus Reviews