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     Michael L. Palmieri (Great_pumpkin) New Member Username: Great_pumpkin Post Number: 40 Registered: 01-2004 |
What is the best Land Rover history book out there? I have read "Land Rover: A Tough Fifty Years," and that was good. But, as someone who is fascinated with history, I would enjoy reading other texts about the history of Land Rover. What is on your bookshelves? | ||
| Alan Yim (Alan) Senior Member Username: Alan Post Number: 1074 Registered: 09-2002 |
I have the following books: You & Your Land Rover Discovery (Dave Pollard) - neat book, has a bit of history in it but lots of nice photographs. Most of the content is in broad strokes, enough to get you interested in the Disco. Land Rover Discovery 1989 - 1998 (James Taylor) - a lot more detail into the history and development of the D1. Taylor details the evolution of the different engines, models, and touches on some technical things like driving techniques, modifications and such but not in extreme detail but overall you get a pretty good picture of the D1 when you're done. Off-roader Driving (Tom Sheppard) - If you want to get into more details of actual driving techniques, this book goes into it. It does a nice job of describing how 4 wheel drive works and it's evolution. It's an older book but it does get into the ETC stuff. I liked it quite a bit and have gone back and re-read parts of it. Not a bad book to leave in the vehicle. 4-Wheeler's Bible (Jim Allen) - Similar in content to the one above. Mostly technical stuff on driving techniques. This book does get into modifications and things to look out for and potential problems. Is a bit more geared towards Jeeps and driving terrain you'll see in the US. It does assume you have some mechanical understanding when it discusses modifications. | ||
| Darren Burgess (Darren) New Member Username: Darren Post Number: 2 Registered: 02-2004 |
Hi Michael, I don't know what might be readily available over there but here's a couple that are definitely worth a look: Land Rover: Fifty Years of the Best 4x4xFar (Matthias Pfannmuller & Boris Schmidt) - Produced for the 50th anniversary in '98, this book gives a good overview of both the company and the model ranges as they were developed. Land Rover 1948-1983 (James Taylor) - An excellent history of all the leaf sprung models. James Taylor is widely regarded as >the< Land Rover historian and he's written a whole range of books on different aspects of the vehicles. Pretty much anything by him is worth a read. Hope this helps. | ||
| Jamie (Rover_puppy) Senior Member Username: Rover_puppy Post Number: 923 Registered: 05-2003 |
Michael, In addition to the above suggestions, there are 2 other books by Tom Sheppard that I like: Off Roader Driving (ISBN 0-9532324-2-5) Vehicle-Dependent Expedition Guide (ISBN 0-9532324-0-9) Both of them are somewhat historical yet they contain info that is still relevant. Very educational. It took me awhile to locate my copies because they were out of print. They were worth the wait. Jamie | ||
| Jamie (Rover_puppy) Senior Member Username: Rover_puppy Post Number: 924 Registered: 05-2003 |
Woopsy, Instead of Off Roader Driving, I meant: The Land Rover Experience by Tom Sheppard (ISBN 0-9514493-1-1) | ||
| Ivan 94 LWB (Montoya) New Member Username: Montoya Post Number: 40 Registered: 01-2003 |
I got Ranger Rover: The First Generation for xmas. I'd give it three out of five stars. They provided great history on the developement of the Range Rover along with good pictures. Me like pictures in books. They almost neglected the quality issues. There wasn't enough on more recent off road competition. I think they devoted a little too much oddball custom models at the end. Here it is on Amazon . . . http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1861265549/qid=1077144379/sr=1-3/r ef=sr_1_3/002-5970078-0783226?v=glance&s=books This book was also at Borders that excludes Range Rovers . . . http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1861265581/qid=1077144484/sr=1-6/r ef=sr_1_6/002-5970078-0783226?v=glance&s=books | ||
| Michael L. Palmieri (Great_pumpkin) Member Username: Great_pumpkin Post Number: 49 Registered: 01-2004 |
I checked around here in the States and some of the books mentioned --- mainly those of James Taylor --- are not around. Then I checked Virgin's UK site and they have most of them, although shipping them from the UK would run about $50 with today's crappy exchange rate. I might just buy them online and ship them to my buddy's place in Cardiff (Wales) and acquire them next time one of us is across the pond. | ||
| Jamie (Rover_puppy) Senior Member Username: Rover_puppy Post Number: 970 Registered: 05-2003 |
Micheal, Go to the website www.allbookstores.com, it is awesome. You put in the name of the book, author, ISBN, or what little info you've got and it will put up a list of everyplace you can get it, the price comparisons, who has it in stock, shipping time, the works. You can also get info, prices, and availablity on used copies. |
