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The history of the world is largely the history of movement. We speak of ancient cultures as though they were immobile, often forgetting that the greatest empires were often comprised primarily of displaced peoples. Genghis Khan uprooted entire populations and put them elsewhere in order to encourage homogeneity within his realm. How did he get them from place to place?

In the age of Learjets and bullet trains, the invention of the wheel seems distant and almost inconsequential. Riding horses is a little more immediate (oddly) because people still do that, but unless you're Amish or Mennonite Brethren living in the eastern United States, carts, wagons and buggies are mere images flickering against the faded screen of the past.

Still, the wheel is one of the building blocks of civilization. Things like wagons, trains, and cars would never have been developed without the wheel, and by extension we probably wouldn't have airplanes either. Boats and ships are a slightly different story, but the technology that allowed early civilizations to put to sea is as foundational as that used to make wheels.

Man has always been fascinated with movement of all kinds, not least the modes of conveyance used to get people and things around. It's important for Christians to remember that God's will is ultimately what allows advances in transportation technology, which (rather than ending the discussion) is the best reason to study it in the first place. To that end, we offer a variety of resources covering a variety of vehicles and inventions.

Review by C. Hollis Crossman
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Anthropology

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History of Transportation

History of Transportation

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Automotive History

Aviation History

Nautical History

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	Air Forces of the World by Sue Butterworth, editor from Chartwell Books for 9th-Adult in Aviation History (Location: HISV-AVIA) $18.00 (1 in stock)
	All Hands Aloft! An Account of the Voyage of the Square-Rigger Arapahoe to Manilla in 1918 by Lou A. Schmitt from Howell-North for 9th-Adult in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Amelia Earhart Lives to Remember by Burke Davis from G.P. Putnam's Sons for 7th-12th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $14.00 (1 in stock)
	America in the Air War by Edward Jablonski from Time-Life Books for 9th-Adult in Aviation History (Location: HISV-AVIA) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	American Ship Models and How to Build Them by V. R. Grimwood, foreword by Howard I. Chapelle from Bonanza Books for 9th-Adult in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Arts of the Sailor Knotting, Splicing and Ropework by Hervey Garrett Smith Reprint from Dover Publications for 5th-Adult in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Blackbeard The Real Pirate of the Caribbean by Dan Parry from Thunder's Mouth Press for 8th-12th grade in Pirates (Location: HISV-PIRATE) $7.00 (1 in stock)
	Blow Ye Winds Westerly The Seaports & Sailing Ships of Old New England by Elizabeth Gemming 1^st edition from Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. for 9th-Adult in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Captain Edward L. Beach: Around the World Under Water by Beril Becker from Kingston House for 6th-10th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein from Hyperion/Madison Press for 9th-12th grade in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF) $10.99
	Design Line: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles A Visual History of Modern Transportation Featuring 100 Iconic Designs by Chris Oxlade, Edited by Jenny Broom, Illustrated by Mike Lemanski from Candlewick Press for 2nd-Adult in Oversized Science Books (Location: SCI-OVER) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Fighting Jets from Time-Life Medical for 9th-Adult in Aviation History (Location: HISV-AVIA) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Getting There Frontier Travel without Power by Suzanne Hilton from Westminster Press for 5th-Adult in Things That Go (Location: SCI-TTGO) $8.50 (1 in stock)
	Guns Off Cape Ann The Story of the Immortal Battle Between the Shannon and the Chesapeake by Kenneth Poolman from Evans Brothers Limited for 9th-Adult in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Illustrated History of Ships and Boats by Lionel Casson from Doubleday & Company for 7th-Adult in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Illustrated Wreck of the Whaleship Essex by Owen Chase 200th Anniversary from SeaWolf Press for 9th-Adult in Seawolf Illustrated Classics (Location: FIC-SW) $6.95
	Keystone Battlewagon - U.S.S. Pennsylvania (BB-38) Warship Series #2 by Myron J. Smith 1^st edition for 7th-10th grade in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS) $2.00 (1 in stock)
	Lexington Goes Down The Last Seven Hours of a Fighting Lady by A. A. Hoehling from Prentice Hall for 9th-Adult in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Lindbergh Alone May 21, 1927 by Brendan Gill from Harcourt, Brace & World for 4th-9th grade in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS) $3.00 (1 in stock)
	Long Ships: A Saga of the Viking Age by Frans G. Bengtsson, translated from the Swedish by Michael Meyer 7th Printing from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. for 9th-Adult in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT) $60.00 (1 in stock)
	Luftwaffe 1^st edition from Time-Life Books for 9th-Adult in Aviation History (Location: HISV-AVIA) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Mayflower II from Plimoth Plantation Publication for 6th-12th grade in Ships, Boats & Submarines (Location: HISV-SHIP) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Men-of-War Life in Nelson's Navy by Patrick O'Brian 1st Us Edition from W. W. Norton and Co. for 5th-10th grade in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $3.00 (2 in stock)
	Men-of-War Seafarers by David Howarth 1^st edition from Time-Life Books for 6th-12th grade in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS) $2.00 (1 in stock)
	Mustang at War by Roger A. Freeman from Doubleday & Company for 9th-Adult in Aviation History (Location: HISV-AVIA) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Mysterious Voyage of Captain Kidd Landmark #122 by A.B.C. Whipple from Purple House Press for 5th-9th grade in Pirates (Location: HISV-PIRATE) $14.99
	Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 by Stephen E. Ambrose from Simon and Schuster for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Paddle-Wheel Days in California from Stanford University Press for 8th-Adult in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Pathfinders by David Nevin 1^st edition from Time-Life Books for 9th-Adult in Aviation History (Location: HISV-AVIA) $2.00 (1 in stock)
	Railroad Inventions That Shaped the World by John Matthews from Franklin Watts for 4th-9th grade in Transcontinental Railroad (Location: HISA-19TRR) $6.50 (1 in stock)
	Road to Kitty Hawk by Valerie Moolman Unknown from Time-Life Books for 9th-Adult in Aviation History (Location: HISV-AVIA) $2.00 (1 in stock)
	Sailing-Ship Six Thousand Years of History by Romola & R. C. Anderson from Bonanza Books for 9th-Adult in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT) $5.50 (1 in stock)
	Salt-Water Men Canada's Deep-Sea Sailors Canadian Inheritance Series #1 by Joseph Schull from Inheritance Publications for 7th-10th grade in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT) $12.95
	San Francisco Bay by John Haskell Kemble from Cornell Maritime Press for 7th-12th grade in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	San Francisco Bay A Pictorial Maritime History by John Haskell Kemble 1978 Reissue from Bonanza Books for 7th-12th grade in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Seafaring America by Alexander Laing from McGraw-Hill for 6th-Adult in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Soldiers of Fortune by Sterling Seagrave from Time-Life Books for 9th-Adult in Aviation History (Location: HISV-AVIA) $2.00 (1 in stock)
	South Sea Shilling Voyages of Captain Cook, R.N. by Eric Swenson First Edition from Viking Press for 7th-Adult in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	Timechart History of Aviation from Lowe & B. Hould Publishers for 6th-Adult in Aviation History (Location: HISV-AVIA) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Trains by John R. Day, illustrated by David A. Warner & Nigel W. Hearn 1989 Reprint from Treasure Press for 6th-Adult in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Twelve Seconds to the Moon A Story of the Wright Brothers by Rosamond Young & Catharine Fitzgerald 2^nd edition from Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc. for 7th-Adult in Aviation History (Location: HISV-AVIA) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Twentieth Century Sea Power for 7th-12th grade in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS) $1.00 (1 in stock)
	We Were There at the Driving of the Golden Spike by David Shepherd, William K. Plummer Reprint from Dover Publications for 5th-9th grade in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF) $7.99
	We Were There at the First Airplane Flight by Felix Sutton, illustrated by Lazlo Matulay Reprint from Dover Publications for 5th-9th grade in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF) $6.99
	Wooden Ships and Iron Men by Clifford Lindsey Alderman from Walker and Company for 8th-Adult in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Wright Brothers by David McCullough Reprint from Simon & Schuster Macmillan for 9th-Adult in Biographies (Location: BIO) $17.00
	Wright Brothers by David McCullough First American Condition from Simon & Schuster Macmillan for 9th-Adult in Biographies (Location: BIO) $15.00 (2 in stock)

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