THE GREAT PEKING TO PARIS EXPEDITION
Australia. Published by HarperCollins, 2005. Photography by Bob Barker . 4to.pp.140 profusely illustrated in colour throughout.illustrated end papers. Original rust coloured hardcover in complete pictorial dust wrapper. Very good copy. Item #195414
The fascinating story of the ultimate road trip and the people who made it in 1907 an extraordinary challenge to test man and machine against nature distance and fate took place there were no roads and no maps but eleven men and five cars fareweledl Peking to drive 10,000 miles to Paris in the greatest motoring event of all time. A century later award-winning cartoonist & tv personality Warren Brown and reknowned adventurer Lang Kidby concocted a grand scheme to recreate the original 1907 Peking to Paris raid in the original makes of veteran cars.
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