Donald Campbell : 300+ a speed odyssey : his life with Bluebird / David De Lara.
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TextPublisher: Stroud, Gloucestershire : The History Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 217 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780750970082; 0750970081Subject(s): Campbell, Donald, 1921-1967 | Speed record holders -- Great Britain -- BiographySummary: BIOGRAPHY: SPORT. Donald Campbell was born into the world of record-breaking, as the only son of the legendary Sir Malcolm Campbell, famous in the inter-war years as the ultimate record breaker with nine land and four water speed records. This richly illustrated book provides a unique insight into the life of Donald Campbell, a brave and intense man obsessed with doing better than his father and flying the flag for Britain as the pioneering nation of speed record breakers and leading-edge designers. With much new and rare material, it reveals the record attempts made with his Bluebirds on land and water, capturing the life-and-death dramas played out against the barren backdrop of Lake Eyre in Australia and the verdant hills surrounding Coniston Water in the English Lake District.
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BIOGRAPHY: SPORT. Donald Campbell was born into the world of record-breaking, as the only son of the legendary Sir Malcolm Campbell, famous in the inter-war years as the ultimate record breaker with nine land and four water speed records. This richly illustrated book provides a unique insight into the life of Donald Campbell, a brave and intense man obsessed with doing better than his father and flying the flag for Britain as the pioneering nation of speed record breakers and leading-edge designers. With much new and rare material, it reveals the record attempts made with his Bluebirds on land and water, capturing the life-and-death dramas played out against the barren backdrop of Lake Eyre in Australia and the verdant hills surrounding Coniston Water in the English Lake District.
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