Border Crossing
Border Crossing
Regular price
Checking stock...
Regular price
Checking stock...
Summary
The first international motor rally from Peking to Paris, involving only five cars, took place in the summer of 1907. Ninety years later the race was re-enacted, and the novelist Rosie Thomas was in one of 110 vintage cars which competed. This is her account of the experience.
The feel-good place to buy books
- Free delivery in Ireland
- Supporting authors with AuthorSHARE
- 100% recyclable packaging
- Proud to be a B Corp – A Business for good
- Buy-back with Ziffit
Border Crossing by Rosie Thomas
The first international motor rally from Peking to Paris took place in the summer of 1907. Only five cars were involved and the crews wrote their agreed code of conduct on the back of a menu the night before the start. Their only navigational aids were the sun and telegraph poles. Ninety years later the race was re-enacted when 110 vintage cars gathered in Peking. Their goal was the finishing line in Paris, 45 days and 16,000 kilometres away. In this book, one of the competitors - novelist Rosie Thomas - describes the excitement of the daily time challenge, the strange camaraderie, the test of sleeping outdoors or in flea-pit hotels in foreign lands and her own internal journey, including a near-death experience high in the Himalayas.
Rosie Thomas was born and grew up in North Wales. She read English at Oxford and worked in publishing. Since the birth of her first child she has written ten novels. She lives with her literary agent husband and two children in North London.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780751529531 |
| ISBN 10 | 0751529532 |
| Title | Border Crossing |
| Author | Rosie Thomas |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1999-09-02 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |