Border Crossing: On the Road from Peking to Paris [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Thomas, Rosie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0751529532 ISBN 13: 9780751529531

Casa editrice: Time Warner Paperbacks, 1999

Riassunto

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 - 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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Rosie Thomas was born and grew up in North Wales. She read English at Oxford and worked in publishing. Since the birth of her first child she has written ten novels. She lives with her literary agent husband and two children in North London.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Time Warner Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0751529532
• ISBN 13: 9780751529531
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 448
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile