Prince Borghese's Trail
Author: Genevieve Obert
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781571780850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGenevieve Obert discusses the experiences she had while competing in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge in 1997.
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Author: Genevieve Obert
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781571780850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGenevieve Obert discusses the experiences she had while competing in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge in 1997.
Author: Kevin Clemens
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-12-24
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0786483237
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow a legend among classic automobile aficionados, Phillip Young is the man generally given credit for starting the classic endurance rally concept. Beginning his career with the 1989 Pirelli Marathon Rally, by 1997 Young and the Classic Rally Association had created the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge. Echoing a 1907 competition, this road race was unprecedented in modern times with a route which included China, India and Tibet. With the approach of the millennium, however, Phillip Young took on an even more ambitious project--the Around the World in 80 Days Motor Challenge. Beginning and ending in London, this event would send its participants literally around the globe in pre-1960 automobiles. This memoir recounts the author's adventures while competing in the Around the World in 80 Days Motor Challenge from May to July 2000. Beginning with his search for a sponsor and his deliberations in choosing a 1959 Mercedes-Benz 220S, it follows him from his arrival in London through various countries including Italy, Greece, former Russian Republics, China, Canada, the United States, Morocco, Spain and France. Clemens provides an up-close view of places most westerners never get to see and of the rigors of competition over varying terrain in an old car. Appendices contain information such as the daily route and schedule, the rally results, and a list of the U.S. Mercedes Team sponsors.
Author: Lisa Bach
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9781885211675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhether kept on a nightstand or tucked in a backpack, this volume of daily travel gems will inspire readers who dream of faraway places. Illustrations.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9004251413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, India and China, twelve scholars examine how knowledge, things and people moved within, and between, the East and the West from the early modern period to the twentieth century. The collection starts by looking at the ways and means that knowledge circulated, first in Europe, but then beyond to India and China. It engages the knowledge and encounters of those Europeans as they moved across the globe. It participates in the attempt to open up more nuanced and balanced trajectories of colonial and post-colonial encounters. By focusing on exchange, translation, and resistance, the authors bring into the spotlight many "bit-players" and things originally relegated to the margins in the development of late modern science. Contributors include Karen Smith, Larry Stewart, Savrithri Preetha Nair, Jan Golinski, Arun Bala, Jonathan Topham, Khyati Nagar, Yang Haiyan, Fa-ti Fan, Grace Yen Shen, Jahnavi Phalkey, Veena Rao, and Sundar Sarukkai.
Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Published: 1860
Total Pages: 934
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lorenzo Borghese
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2010-12-07
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0062030620
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrince Lorenzo Borghese, a descendant of the brother-in-law of Napoleon Bonaparte, bursts boldly onto the historical fiction scene with The Princess of Nowhere—a captivating and richly atmospheric re-imagining of the life of the author’s famous ancestor, Princess Pauline Bonaparte Borghese. Author Borghese—whom TV viewers will recognize for his appearance on the hit ABC series, The Bachelor—will enthrall readers of Sarah Dunant and Suzannah Dunn with this masterful blend of fact and fiction, a story of passion, betrayal, and one woman who truly conquered all…even death.
Author: Dermot Cole
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 2020-05-15
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1602234035
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the winter of 1908, six cars left Times Square bound for Paris. They were embarking on a remarkable motor race across the world that would capture everyone’s imagination. In this book, Dermot Cole weaves a thrilling account of the improbable journey west from New York to Paris, the varied characters, and the nascent automobile industry. Drawing from the drivers’ journals and extensive newspaper reports, Cole details the many hardships, triangulations, and physical extremes encountered along the route as the drivers attempted to race from coast to coast, cross the Bering Strait to Russia, traverse Siberia, and onward. Hard Driving delves beyond the riveting headlines to explore the race’s implications for global politics and diplomacy and how the automobile became a viable mode of transportation.