Found: Children's picture book with cutaway drawings of pseudo-historical vehicles
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1BiblioFiend22
I have been searching for years with no luck to find a children's picture book I read in the mid-1990s in the UK. It had no story, but any descriptive text would have been in English. Each page had a different cross-section/cutaway diagram or schematic of imaginary pseudo-historical vehicles. Basically modern vehicles if people in various historical eras had tried to build them. I can't remember them all, but I vividly remember three of them:
1. A caveman mobile home. Literally a giant rock full of caves and pulled by big animals (I think mammoths) on rolling logs. Basically a Flintstones-style thing.
2. A Roman submarine that was like a historical Roman galley with oars, but also a roof so that it could go underwater. I'm 99% sure it was shaped like a seahorse and called the Hippocampus (Latin for seahorse).
3. A Victorian spaceship, powered by coal and a set of gigantic bellows to blow the fire out like a rocket. In other words, a Steampunk spaceship.
If you know the name of this book, please let me know! Thanks in advance.
P.S. I am fairly certain that this is *not* by Stephen Biesty. Although Biesty is famous for a similar style of cutaway drawings, the Biesty books that I've seen only ever feature real-world (present or historic) vehicles, e.g. the space shuttle, a medieval castle. Therefore, unless you know of a book by Biesty in which he depicts fantasy or imaginary vehicles, then I am only interested in books by other authors please.
1. A caveman mobile home. Literally a giant rock full of caves and pulled by big animals (I think mammoths) on rolling logs. Basically a Flintstones-style thing.
2. A Roman submarine that was like a historical Roman galley with oars, but also a roof so that it could go underwater. I'm 99% sure it was shaped like a seahorse and called the Hippocampus (Latin for seahorse).
3. A Victorian spaceship, powered by coal and a set of gigantic bellows to blow the fire out like a rocket. In other words, a Steampunk spaceship.
If you know the name of this book, please let me know! Thanks in advance.
P.S. I am fairly certain that this is *not* by Stephen Biesty. Although Biesty is famous for a similar style of cutaway drawings, the Biesty books that I've seen only ever feature real-world (present or historic) vehicles, e.g. the space shuttle, a medieval castle. Therefore, unless you know of a book by Biesty in which he depicts fantasy or imaginary vehicles, then I am only interested in books by other authors please.
2slimikin
I believe this is King Arthur's Spaceship and Other Marvels That Might Have Changed the World by Leo Hartas and John Yeoman. (Also, searching for this was a blast: who knew there were so many glorious cross-section books out there?! :D)
3BiblioFiend22
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4BiblioFiend22
>2 slimikin: Thanks very much - that's the one! I've tried searching so many keyword combinations including "cross-section", "cutaway", etc. and I have no idea how you managed to find it, but thanks again!
5slimikin
>4 BiblioFiend22: Sheer stubbornness, I think. And also a deep curiosity about this book. :) I searched for cross-section diagram artists and then checked their work for something that looked likely. No one was more surprised than I was when an image search for "Leo Hartas" immediately pulled up that caveman mobile home you described. I'm glad I was able to find it for you!
