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First Overland: London-Singapore by Land Rover by Tim Slessor (Paperback, 2015)
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Author: Tim Slessor. After all, no-one had ever done it before. They knew that several expeditions had already tried it. 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.
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Why t? After all, -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 deserts of Persia; a few had even reached the plains of India. But -one had managed to go on from there: over the jungle-clad mountains of Assam and across rthern Burma to Thailand and Malaya. Over the last 3,000 miles it seemed there were just too many rivers and too few roads . But -one really knew...In fact, their problems began much earlier than that. As mere undergraduates, they had money, cars, thing. 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. Then they gently persuaded Rover 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 bestselling book, First Overland, is republished-with a foreword by Sir David Attenborough. After all, it was he who gave them that film.Product Identifiers
PublisherSignal Books Ltd
ISBN-101909930369
ISBN-139781909930360
eBay Product ID (ePID)221260646
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AuthorTim Slessor
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicTravel Writing
GenreTravel Writing
Dimensions
Weight399g
Height196mm
Width127mm
Additional Product Features
Date of Publication15/10/2015
Photographs byAntony Barrington Brown
Place of PublicationOxford
Spine20mm
Content NoteIllustrations
Author BiographyTim Slessor worked for the BBC for nearly 50 years. He is the author of More than Cowboys: Travels through the History of the American West, also available from Signal Books. TimeOut called it 'perfect escapist entertainment as well as deep vicarious pleasure.'
Foreword bySir David Attenborough
Edition Statement2nd Revised Edition
Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom
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- 05 Jul, 2018
A historical tale of travel by perseverance
It has history, adventure, human interest and is a great read for Land Rover tragics. This trip cannot now be duplicated with the current political state of those countries traversed and the travelers had many bureaucratic hurdles to clear at the time of the trip. They met each obstacle with true English grit and the use of the Empire network which was alive and well at the time (1955). Worth every penny.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
