The World on Wheels, and Other Sketches

Name: The World on Wheels, and Other Sketches
Author: Benjamin F. Taylor

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CEFR level: C1
Length: 34 chapters
Format: The complete book

About this book

Explore the ingenuity of wheels shaping 19th-century life, from boyhood inventions to the mighty Concord coach, as vivid sketches reveal how this simple mechanism propels history, travel, and human imagination across land and sea.

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