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Synopsis
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.
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About the Author
Tim Slessor was formerly a BBC documentary maker and is the author of Lying in State (Aurum, 2003).
Review
"I think that this is the best travel book I have ever read." The Motor; "An altogether delightful book... written with humour and beguiling gusto." Times Literary Supplement; "Fifty years on, their journey and its telling have become both an epic and a classic." Sir David Attenborough
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- PublisherSignal
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1904955142
- ISBN 13 9781904955146
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages256
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