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Chargement... The Roper Brothers and Their Magnificent Steam Automobilepar W. E. Butterworth
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Two brothers who accidentally acquire a Doble, an old steam automobile, have serious differences when one desperately needs the money it is worth and the other is determined to restore it before selling. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This book has that in *spades*. I picked it up thinking it would be a fun, tom-swift-style story where a pair of boys acquire an awesome car, fix it, and then fight crime and have hijinx. Instead, it starts with a story about the occupation of Germany, and then spends the next fifty pages teaching me the principles of commodities trading and the modern farming business.
It's *amazing*.
It does eventually get to the car, too, but instead of glossing over the tinkering and getting right to the hijinx, the restoration of the car is the main thrust of the book, and I learned more about steam engines and steam cars then I imagined I could: it's a Dobel Model E steam automobile, and it's brilliant: it's the best car in all the world, it honestly is, and I fell in love with it along with the characters.
I want one now.
There is a story, too, it's not *just* an excuse to talk about the car; it's a story about family relationships, sibling and intergenerational, and about growing into and out of yourself. (But mostly about the car.)
If you know someone who's not a great reader but loves mechanical things, find them this book. ( )