The Great Peking to Paris Expedition / Warren Brown, Mick Matheson, Lang Kidby ; photographs by Bob Barker.

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Brown, Warren

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Pymble, N.S.W. : HarperCollins, 2005.Description: xii, 339 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cmISBN:

0732282535
9780732282530

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DDC classification:

796.72 22

Subject: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Non-Fiction	Waimate Event Centre - Long term storage	Non Fiction	796.72 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan	Not for loan		A00405832

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.

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