Product Description

The Land Rover has become an icon right across the world, famed for its classic design, its practicality and its longevity - the direct ancestors of the first Land Rover of 1948 are still being produced as the 'Defender'. Its sixty years of development are lovingly and accurately charted in this most comprehensive of all "Land Rover" books, the first one ever to look at the total story.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #302563 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 270 pages

About the Author
James Taylor has been researching and writing about motoring history since the late 1970s, and has written widely in the motoring press in the UK and abroad, as well as authoring more than eighty books, many of them for Crowood. He is known and respected for the detailed research that goes into his writing. The products of the Rover company and its descendants have always been his first love and his major specialization, and he has been the Editor of Land Rover Enthusiast magazine since its inception. Resident - Oxfordshire

Customer Reviews

He does it again
Of course 60 years of Land Rover is a nice moment to capture the history of the marque in a book.
James Taylor is the right person to do it. I had the pleasure to see the extensive and possibly the largest collection of everything Land Rover myself and I can assure everybody that no one is better positioned to write the definitive book on the first 60 years of land Rover.
Many more books will be written on the subject, but it will be a very hard act to follow.
For everybody with a soft spot in his heart for the marque, this is the book for you, and please look at the other books by the same author.

Thorough and Beautiful Book
I've just finished reading this book cover to cover. James Taylor really knows his stuff and he has managed to track down some excellent photographs and other material to back up the text.

The Photographs are excellently reproduced including some real rarities, and the text has many sidebars with additional information on the people and projects. Each Section has a breakdown of production numbers for that model and information of chassis (VIN) numbers etc.

This book covers only the "proper" land rovers, so no Discovery, Range rover or Freelander here, unless mentioned as part of the development of the Land Rover.

Many tidbits that even the enthusiast may not have seen before, such as the 80" series one built from parts in the 60's to evaluate the Rover 2000 engine in a land rover.

One of the most interesting aspects is the coverage of the variants built around the world, such as Santana, Penrite etc.

Pity about the rusty screw on the cover photo :-)

Great Book
Thoroughly entertaining account of the best 4x4. Factual, detailed, with plenty of pictures. My six year old son enjoyes this book as much as I do.