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22 ACCIDENTS Size: 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 216 mm) | Pages: 176 Price: $19.95 US | £18.99 GBP | $29.95 CAN Illustrations: 182 b/w images | PB ISBN: 978-0-7643-0813-0 BISAC : HEA021000 / Health & Fitness / Safety AVAILABLE: NOW Size: 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 216 mm) | Pages: 176 Price: $19.95 US | £18.99 GBP | $29.95 CAN Illustrations: 186 b/w images | PB ISBN: 978-0-7643-0766-9 BISAC : HEA021000 / Health & Fitness / Safety AVAILABLE: NOW With over 150 photos, many full page and of historical, national, and international importance, this book captures on film wrecks and crashes of all kinds: air, highway, railway, and water as well as accidents involving trucks, buses, cars, light planes, jetliners, seaplanes, freight trains, and ships. European wrecks, Asian wrecks, and American wrecks are also well represented. This book adds to the intriguing iconography of travel accidents introduced by the first volume, Smashups . You are invited here to pore over the photographs and captions and experience the thrill of danger in the comfort and safety of your own home. There are also European wrecks, Asian wrecks, American wrecks, minor crashes, major ones, horse-and-cart wrecks, freak accidents, and even ordinary ones. With over 180 photographs, most never before published in America and many of historical, national, and international importance, you can now experience the thrill of danger in the safety of your own home. Experience the thrill of danger in the comfort and safety of your own home through the pages of this exciting book. Smashups: The Hazards of Travel offers an intriguing iconography of travel accidents of all genres—air, highway, railway, and water wrecks involving trucks, buses, cars, light planes, jetliners, seaplanes, freight trains, and ships. ISBN 978-0-7643-0813-0 ISBN 978-0-7643-0766-9 Crash! Travel Mishaps and Calamities Robert Reed Smashups The Hazards of Travel Robert C. Reed Robert Reed is an adjunct professor of English at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. He has written earlier books about train wrecks, streamline industrial design, the New York City elevated railroad system, and 19th-century Washington, DC. Robert Reed is an adjunct professor of English at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. He lives in a 19th-century cottage in Old Town Alexandria and on Sideling Hill, near Paw Paw, West Virginia, where he pretends to live like Thoreau but can't exist without satellite television and microwave popcorn. He has written earlier books about train wrecks, the era of streamline industrial design, the development of the New York City elevated railroad system, and 19th-century Washington, DC. In recent years, he has written about architecture and urban design. Of his interest in the wreckage of voyage, Reed denies any obsession with the macabre. He argues that accidents are the reality of the every day.