The Last India Overland
Author : Craig Grant
Publisher : Craig Grant
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Canadian fiction
ISBN : 9780919926950
Author : Craig Grant
Publisher : Craig Grant
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Canadian fiction
ISBN : 9780919926950
Author : Tim Slessor
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,55 MB
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1908493208
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 desrts 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'. But no-one really knew … In fact, their problems began much earlier than that. As mere undergraduates, they had no money, no cars, nothing. But with a cool audacity, which was to become characteristic, they set to work – wheedling and cajoling. First, they coaxed the BBC to come up with some film for a possible TV series. They then gently persuaded the manufacturers to lend them two factory-fresh Land Rovers. A publisher was even sweet-talked into giving them an advance on a book. By the time they were ready to go, their sponsors (more than 80 of them) ranged from whiskey distillers to the makers of collapsible buckets. In late 1955, they set off. Seven months and 12,000 miles later, two very weary Land Rovers, escorted by police outriders, rolled into Singapore – to flash bulbs and champagne. Now, fifty years on, their book, ‘First Overland', is republished – with a foreword by Sir David Attenborough. After all, it was he who gave them that film.
Author : Sven Anders Hedin
Publisher : London, Macmillan
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 28,93 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Iran
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Author : Alex Bescoby
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1789294754
The Last Overland is the remarkable story of filmmaker and historian Alex Bescoby's journey to recreate the iconic First Overland expedition made in 1956 in the original 'Oxford' Land Rover. The four-part documentary series is now available on All 4.
Author : Tushar Agarwal
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 2016
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ISBN : 9788170263616
Author : Max Reisch
Publisher : Panther Publications
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 27,53 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Asia
ISBN : 9780955659591
MOTORCYCLES: GENERAL INTEREST. This is a truly great travel adventure through Iraq, Iran and Baluchistan to India in 1933. But what really sets this book apart are the wonderful descriptions of the people and cultures, now nearly forgotten, but still hugely relevant in today's age: all brought evocatively to life by the wonderful photos from 1933. At that time, the idea of traveling to India on a motorbike through the deserts was considered impossible; there were no roads and they were attempting to cross the burning deserts in the middle of August, on a tiny two-stroke motorcycle with barely enough power for the bike and rider, let alone a pillion passenger! Gripping stuff, yet perceptive and full of drama - definitely a must for all travel and motorcycle enthusiasts.
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Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 23,54 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Banks and banking
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Page : 868 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 1878
Category : Banks and banking
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Page : 1086 pages
File Size : 39,48 MB
Release : 1910
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Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 11,8 MB
Release : 1910
Category : History, Modern
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