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First Overland: London-Singapore by Land Rover
Tim Slessor
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Description for First Overland: London-Singapore by Land Rover
Paperback. Classic journey from London to Singapore by Land Rover. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 400.
Why not? After all, no-one had ever done it before. It would be one of the longest of all overland journeys-half-way round the world, from the English Channel to Singapore. They knew that several expeditions had already tried it. Some had got as far as the deserts of Persia; a few had even reached the plains of India. But no-one had managed to go on from there: over the jungle-clad mountains of Assam and across northern Burma to Thailand and Malaya. Over the last 3,000 miles it seemed there were just too many rivers and too few roads . ... Read more
Why not? After all, no-one had ever done it before. It would be one of the longest of all overland journeys-half-way round the world, from the English Channel to Singapore. They knew that several expeditions had already tried it. Some had got as far as the deserts of Persia; a few had even reached the plains of India. But no-one had managed to go on from there: over the jungle-clad mountains of Assam and across northern Burma to Thailand and Malaya. Over the last 3,000 miles it seemed there were just too many rivers and too few roads . ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Signal Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781909930360
SKU
V9781909930360
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About Tim Slessor
Tim Slessor worked for the BBC for nearly 50 years. He is the author of More than Cowboys: Travels through the History of the American West, also available from Signal Books. TimeOut called it 'perfect escapist entertainment as well as deep vicarious pleasure.'
Reviews for First Overland: London-Singapore by Land Rover
'An altogether delightful book... written with humour and beguiling gusto.'
Times Literary Supplement; 'I think that this is the best travel book I have ever read.'
The Motor; 'Fifty years on, their journey and its telling have become both an epic and a classic.'
Sir David Attenborough
Times Literary Supplement; 'I think that this is the best travel book I have ever read.'
The Motor; 'Fifty years on, their journey and its telling have become both an epic and a classic.'
Sir David Attenborough