Ian Graham

Explores the ways different cars are designed and built and explores some of the history of automobile design, including why race cars are so different from regular cars, who invented air bags, and the history of steam engines up to modern supercar engines.

Describes the realities and risks of attempting to climb Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, from the perspective of a member of a team of British mountaineers in 1952.

"Discover the vehicles that make it possible to travel fast-- from the quickest pedal-powered bicycles to twin-hulled hydroplanes, from rocket-powered cars to hypersonic aircraft"--Cover, P. [4]

Examines the moon, its folklore, eclipses, changing appearance, craters, mountains, exploration, and effect on the tides.