Stan Yorke has been cruising the waterways of England and Wales for the last forty years and ran his own company fitting out narrowboats. He retired to live on one of his own boats and spends much of the year with his wife, Margaret, travelling the length and breadth of the country by water. His other books include The Industrial Revolution Explained and Steam Railways Explained.
10 Ebooks by Stan Yorke
Stan Yorke: Steam Railways Explained
Steam railways have always captured the public’s imagination. Even from the first stirrings of the mineral lines in the early 1800s through to the heyday of the Railway Age, steam engines kept and co …
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€8.35
Stan Yorke: Steam Engines Explained
In this book, Stan Yorke explains the history of the steam engine and the enormous variety of uses to which it was put. There are over 50 photographs, plus detailed diagrams. Steam engines with their …
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€8.34
Stan Yorke: Windmills and Waterwheels Explained
Waterwheels provided our sole source of power, apart from animals and our own sweat, as far back as 200 BC. Windmills arrived in the 12th Century and then both reigned supreme until the appearance of …
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€9.66
Stan Yorke: Windmills and Waterwheels Explained
Waterwheels provided our sole source of power, apart from animals and our own sweat, as far back as 200 BC. Windmills arrived in the 12th Century and then both reigned supreme until the appearance of …
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English
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€9.63
Stan Yorke: Industrial Revolution Explained
The English Industrial Revolution was a triumph of ingenuity and invention. New sources of power, better manufacturing methods and expanding transport systems brought fantastic changes affecting ever …
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English
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€5.79
Stan Yorke & Trevor Yorke: What the Victorians Got Wrong
The nineteenth century was an era of scientific advance like no other in history. And no nation gained more from its forward momentum than Britain and her Empire. Railways were built, bridges constru …
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English
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€5.77
Stan Yorke & Trevor Yorke: What the Victorians Got Wrong
The nineteenth century was an era of scientific advance like no other in history. And no nation gained more from its forward momentum than Britain and her Empire. Railways were built, bridges constru …
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English
DRM
€5.78
Stan Yorke: Steam Railways Explained
Steam railways have always captured the public’s imagination. Even from the first stirrings of the mineral lines in the early 1800s through to the heyday of the Railway Age, steam engines kept and co …
EPUB
English
DRM
€8.35
Stan Yorke: Steam Engines Explained
In this book, Stan Yorke explains the history of the steam engine and the enormous variety of uses to which it was put. There are over 50 photographs, plus detailed diagrams. Steam engines with their …
EPUB
English
DRM
€8.37
Stan Yorke: Industrial Revolution Explained
The English Industrial Revolution was a triumph of ingenuity and invention. New sources of power, better manufacturing methods and expanding transport systems brought fantastic changes affecting ever …
EPUB
English
DRM
€5.79
