This is a combined edition of the three volumes forming the autobiography of Tom Rolt, one of Britain’s greatest writers on engineering history. The volumes are “Landscape with Machines” which covers Rolt’s youth and his apprenticeships at Bomfords, Kerr Stuart and Listers up to the start of WW11 which saw him living on a canal boats, ‘Landscape with Canals” which covers his life on the narrow boat and his pioneering of canal preservation, and ‘Landscape with Figures” (published posthumously) which covers his later life, and especially his time as the first General Manager of the world’s first preserved railway - the Talyllyn. Intensely readable, this book is interesting both for its insight into industry during the first half of the twentieth century, and for revealing a sometimes troubled man who was a true gentleman, a wonderful writer and pioneer of preserving the best of the past. 688 pages, including 16 pages of B & W photos. Paperback. Sutton Publishing.