About the Book: A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel to the Car to What
Comes Next
speckled with anecdotes, insights and surprises. It is great fun-and utterly
timely Sunday Times
standage writes with a masterly clarity New York Times
the product of deep research, great intelligence and burnished prose . . . It is
rare that I encounter a non-fiction author whose prose is so elegant that it is
worth reading for itself. Standage is a writer of this class Wall Street Journal
Beginning around 3, 500 BC with the wheel, and moving through the eras of
horsepower, trains and bicycles, Tom Standage puts the