Olejar Books

What is it about an engine roaring into life that makes grown men go weak at the knees? Find out in this light-hearted look at one man´s overwhelming obsession with machines.

This is a book about machines and the men who love them. Some of these men are quite odd. Having always been a mechanophobe himself, living in the slow lane, Dan Kieran is on a mission to discover the allure of machines and man´s need for speed. Follow Dan as he climbs aboard a penny-farthing for a jaunt around west London, drives a steam train through the ´alps,´ joins the pit lane crew of Mitsubishi for the Britcar 24-hour race at Silverstone, discovers the link between Lawrence of Arabia and the ´wall of death,´ meets tank collectors and the men behind ´digger ballet,´ learns to fly in the shadow of Douglas Bader, and, along the way, wrestles with Aristotle, Jeremy Clarkson, Plato, Hunter S. Thompson, and, mostly, himself.