TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown, Warren.
AU  - Matheson, Mick.
AU  - Kidby, Lang.
AU  - Barker, Bob.
TI  - The Great Peking to Paris Expedition
SN  - 0732282535
U1  - 796.72 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Pymble, N.S.W.
PB  - HarperCollins
KW  - Peking to Paris Motor Challenge
KW  - (1st
KW  - 1907)
KW  - Automobile racing
KW  - History
KW  - Antique and classic cars
KW  - Asia
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Europe
N2  - 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 in five cars farewelled Peking to drive 10,000 miles to Paris in the greatest motoring event of all time ... A century later ... Warren Brown and ... Lang Kidby concocted a grand scheme: to recreate the original 1907 Peking to Paris Raid in the original makes of veteran cars. The fascinating story of the ultimate road trip and the people who made it. Ten drivers in five veteran cars travel 14,000 kilometres across China, Mongolia, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Holland, Belgium and France
ER  -