- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd (25 Oct 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1845134710
- ISBN-13: 978-1845134716
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.6 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 321,651 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The modern-day Mini may bear little mechanical resemblance to the classic British car to which it owes its name. Nonetheless, now over half a century since Sir Alec Issigonis’s original conception, the Mini remains a towering icon in Britain’s post-war social history. From those with fond memories of this most diminutive vehicle, to those whose only acquaintance is with the modern BMW model’s entertainingly short ‘Mini Adventures’ on TV, this book promises to captivate all who read it. With A Mini Adventure, Martin Wainwright presents a biography of breadth and humour, celebrating this classic car. Here is everything from Sir Alec Issigonis’s original conception of the car to its rebirth as a badge-engineered BMW. Wainwright writes about the police Mini into whose back seat George Best was once squeezed, the Mini Moke (a weird miniature beach runabout), the Mini as a ’60s Mary Quant style icon, as well as how Blue Peter once broke the how-many-people-can-you-get-into-a-Mini world record – not to mention its off-centre driving wheel, its dodgy electrics and the insane interior noise of an original souped-up Mini Cooper… A Mini Adventure is the social history this little car has always deserved.
About the Author
Martin Wainwright is the Guardian’s Northern Editor and author of Aurum’s successful A Mini Adventure: 50 Years of the Iconic Small Car and Morris Minor: A Biography. He is well-known for writing on northern and countryside topics including a biography of walking pioneer, Alfred Wainwright (no relation), and The Coast-to-Coast Walk, a guide to one of the UK’s most popular long distance trails, also published by Aurum. Martin Wainwright is also the editor of A Lifetime in Mountains and A Gleaming Landscape: A Hundred Years of the Guardian’s Country Diary. He was awarded an MBE in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to the National Lottery Charities Board in Yorkshire and Humberside and lives in Leeds.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Good pot pori of mini anecdotes, goes well with Mini by christy cambell and below is worth tracking down
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
I totally agree with the other reviewers, this book is well worth a read as its full of the human side of the Mini story with all of the interconnected and brilliant lives it brought together to create this mastepiece of enginnering and its world changing spin offs.
I have read many books about Mini's, some of which are stowed on my book shelf to look at again and again. This book is very well written with new snippets of information and was very enjoyable to read from start to finish. This is a story about the Mini and it's history, not a technical guide - perfect for me, a lady with very little technical knowledge or interest!
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