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This family of fast, alluring and supremely elegant cars first
appeared in 1958 in the form of the 240bhp 140mph DB4. The response
from the motoring press and the motoring public was rapturous,
though the price of this handbuilt supercar was beyond the reach of
all but a favoured few. The coupe was soon joined by a 266bhp
Vantage version, by the 302bhp short-chassis DB4 GT(only 75
produced) and by a convertible. The DB4 GT Zagato, most powerful of
all at 314bhp, is also the rarest, only 19 examples being made. The
1964 replacement for the DB4 was the DB5, again offered as coupe or
convertible, with standard 282bhp engine or the 314bhp Vantage
unit, and the line concluded with the 1965-70 DB6, with cut-off
tail, better aerodynamics and in Vantage form having 325bhp. All
these cars remain as special and as exclusive as they ever were,
and they command correspondingly high prices based on three factors
a condition, history and most of all originality. Here James Taylor
gives full details of correct original specification and equipment
for all these cars, backed up by in-depth colour photography of
outstanding examples of all models and variants. Body panels,
external trim and badging, paint colours, interior trim, dashboard,
instruments and controls, under-bonnet components, engine and
transmission, lamps, and other features right down to the tool kit,
are all covered."
This is the collected travel essays of Elizabeth Taylor, a
Victorian adventuress who specialized in traveling to, and writing
about, the coldest lands on earth. Throughout her wildly exciting
life she collected many 'firsts', including being one of the first
recognized explorers of the American Arctic region.
The challenge of rugged, cold places was her romance, and her
essays include descriptions on the culture, family life, folklore
and natural history of Alaska, Arctic Canada, Iceland, Norway,
Scotland and the Faeroe Islands of Denmark. Included in this
delicious volume are reprints of her original photos and
illustrations.
Taylor traveled by birchbark canoe, steamboat, Red River ox
carts and horseback, and even experienced a shipwreck. As a
self-taught botanist and zoologist, she wrote about the local
flora, fauna and wildlife she observed in her journeys, and today
two plants carry her name. She collected plant and fish specimens
for the American Museum of Natural History, Cornell University,
Catholic University of Washington, the Smithsonian Institution and
Pitt Rivers Museum of Oxford University.
"There is a pleasing squishiness about a big puddle, and a
little excitement in seeing how deep one is going to go".
"It is unreasonable, I confess. One is scorched by the hot sun,
drenched in storms, bitten by mosquitoes, gnats and deer flies,
lives on bacon and camp bread, sleeps on the ground, and is
perfectly happy withal".
"Another time I should take as many prunes as possible".
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