Motor racing: the golden age: extraordinary images from 1900 to 1970.

by John Tennant

book

Genres: Nonfiction

100 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[jaydro · Rating 2 out of 5]

At first glance upon flipping through this book, I thought it was marvelous. But after actually going through it, I found far too many photos that I thought were clunkers, certain subjects and photographers seemed over-represented, and I didn't quite understand the author's intentions in inserting diptychs of obscure women racers or children at play with some regularity throughout the book. The book would have benefited immensely from photo captions that were whole paragraphs rather than one line, because many photographs called for more explanation. There are many striking photographs (and the photographs of Brooklands make me want to find a book devoted exclusively to historic photographs of that track), but with a title as comprehensive as this book's, the reader deserves even more.