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Item Details
| Title:
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BORDER CROSSING
ON THE ROAD FROM PEKING TO PARIS |
| By: |
Rosie Thomas |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£16.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0316647128 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780316647120 |
| Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY |
| Pub. date: |
15 October, 1998 |
| Edition: |
Us ed. |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
The first international motor rally from Peking to Paris, involving only five cars, took place in the summer of 1907. Ninety years later the race was re-enacted, and the novelist Rosie Thomas was in one of 110 vintage cars which competed. This is her account of the experience. |
| Synopsis: |
The first international motor rally from Peking to Paris took place in the summer of 1907. Only five cars were involved, and the crews wrote their agreed code of conduct on the back of a menu the night before the start. Their only navigational aids were the sun and telegraph poles. Ninety years later the race was re-enacted when 110 vintage cars gathered in Peking. Their goal was the finishing line in Paris, 45 days and 16,000 kilometres away. In this book one of the competitors, the novelist Rosie Thomas, describes the excitement of the daily time challenge, the strange camaraderie, the test of sleeping outdoors or in flea-pit hotels in foreign lands - and her own internal journey, including a near-death experience high in the Himalayas. |
| Illustrations: |
Section: 8, Colour |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Little, Brown & Company |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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