Driving the Silk Road by Douglas Mcwilliams
Have you ever imagined what it might be like to take a fairly standard luxury saloon, designed to take ministers and tycoons about their business, across the Gobi Desert in the notoriously hard 'Peking to Paris' endurance rally? One year, after a lively family Christmas dinner, Douglas McWilliams and his brother Mike decided to find out. In 2019, they entered a Bentley S1 in the rally, which would see them depart from Beijing along the old Silk Road, which connects China with the West by land. Travelling about 16,000 kilometres in total, they drove nearly halfway round the world. Their Bentley was one of only 21 cars to complete the rally without being flatbedded or towed. This book is about two brothers on an extraordinary journey across the entire Eurasian continent. Their story would be an interesting one even if it were 'just' a travel book about a rather exotic drive. But they entered the rally because they sensed that the world's centre of economic gravity was shifting towards the area that they were traversing: China, Central Asia and Russia. Along the way they would discover what the coming-together of the revitalised Russia and China means for the West today, on an adventure that sheds new light on our ever-changing world in more ways than one.
'What a wonderful way to explore how Belt and Road and the rise of Eurasia are changing the world: driving across Eurasia from Beijing to Paris in an old BentleyThis is a great read: an adventure story combined with astute insights into the world of the coming century. Shame I couldn't have shared such a magical journey with them as a backseat passenger...' -- Martin Jacques, author of When China Rules the World; 'Two renown economists, brothers too, drive halfway around the Earth in an old Bentley, negotiating the world's shifting economic tectonic plates; who'd have forecasted such a "silky" outcome.' -- Howard Cox, FairFuelUK's Founder; This is a truly fascinating read, guaranteed to thrill and entertain in equal measure. – Rolls-Royce & Bentley Driver magazine; Fascinating. – Octane magazine
Douglas McWilliams is Executive Deputy Chairman of the Centre for Economics and Business Research, one of the UK's leading specialist economics consultancies, and one of the most highly respected sources of business advice and research. His career has focused on making economics relevant to commerce, first as Chief Economic Adviser to the Confederation of British Industry, then as Chief Economist for IBM UK. He is the author of The Flat White Economy and The Inequality Paradox, has edited Cebr's World Economic League Table and authored Cebr's report on the Economic Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative. He has been a petrolhead since he was a child.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781912892716 |
| ISBN 10 | 1912892715 |
| Title | Driving the Silk Road |
| Author | Douglas Mcwilliams |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Whitefox Publishing Ltd |
| Year published | 2019-12-23 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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