Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park, Paperback - Andy Mulvihill

The outlandish, hilarious, terrifying, and almost impossible-to-believe story of the legendary, dangerous amusement park where millions were entert...

Reducere. By using this book, you are about to become your family's hero Amusement parks are often packed with noisy crowds, rides that beat you up or make y...

*Includes pictures of the various amusement parks and rides *Traces the history of Coney Island and includes accounts of the old amusement parks an...

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When the Aldens visit their cousins, they're in for a surprise--there's an amusement park nearby It has everything they could ask for, with plenty ...

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Alice, a young woman prone to intuitive insights and loyalty to the only family she has ever known, leaves England for the rigid colony of the Mass...

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Switchback Turns looks at the fast and fascinating rides to explain how gravity works even when youare thrown upside down, how a pendulum swings, t...

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LeSourdsville Lake, also known as Americana Amusement Park by a generation of visitors, was a popular recreational park for many decades despite be...

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Reducere. About the AuthorTracy Salcedo has been writing and editing outdoor guidebooks for more than twenty years. She has written Best Easy Day Hikes guide...

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