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4.5
Mr. Votolato's latest book is a delightful example of research in an emerging field, served up in a conversational style that makes even the most exhaustively detailed sentences, saturated with densely packedinformation, go down like strawberries and champagne. He makes it all look so easy to understand: boats, cars, planes, trains, how they got there, who designed them and why, how style often won out over safety, and what's likely to happen to all our modes of transport in the wake of our belated realization that the our planet'sresources are limited.If you have ever wondered about bucket seats, the Orient Express, hubcaps, the grand ballrooms of luxury liners, or the tacky designs of motor coaches, you will find all about them and more in Mr. Votolato's breezy but authoritative tome. It is the very best study of its kind around, suited for both dabblers and scholars, the next best thing, I suspect, to sharing a few bottles of bubbly with Mr. Votolato himself.Edward Terrell, Art Historian
