Peking to Paris
Author | : Luigi Barzini |
Publisher | : Demontreville Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Peking to Paris Motor Challenge |
ISBN | : 9780978956318 |
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Author | : Luigi Barzini |
Publisher | : Demontreville Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Peking to Paris Motor Challenge |
ISBN | : 9780978956318 |
Author | : Dina Bennett |
Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing Inc. |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2013-05 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 1620878003 |
In this thrilling road trip from Peking to Paris, a woman tries to save her car, her marriage, and her confidence from breaking...
Author | : Philip Young |
Publisher | : Veloce Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 887 |
Release | : 2014-03-13 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1845847199 |
10,000 miles, the greatest overland drive between two capital cities ... in the wheel-tracks of the original pioneers who blazed a trail in 1907 to prove that cars could now go anywhere ... and 100 years later, a total of 130 veteran, vintage and classic cars from 26 different countries recreate the same great adventure ... pounding down the vast empty spaces of the Gobi Desert ... Mongolia ... Russian Steppes ... racing for a bottle of champagne. The official record of the centennial re-enactment of a great motoring milestone: the 1907 Peking to Paris race. Man and machine against the elements, driving where no car has gone before ... that was the impossible challenge of 1907, when a handful of buccaneering madcap motorists took up the idea of a Paris newspaper to prove that the car could now go anywhere by driving the huge distance between two capital cities – Peking to Paris. To mark the 100th anniversary of the original Great Race, over 100 cars set out to drive the original route used by Prince Borghese in 1907. They ranged from authentic veteran Italas and vintage Bentleys to classic Aston Martins, and pretty much everything in-between. Drivers of 26 different nationalities came together to test their wits and their cars by driving 40 days from the Great Wall of China, across the Gobi Desert. After the Gobi came ten days of wilderness, crossing Mongolia's vast plains to Russia, then on to Moscows Red Square and St Petersburg, Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Germany, the survivors finally rolling into Paris for an amazing party. Even though 100 years had passed since the first groundbreaking event, today's rally enthusiasts discovered that in Mongolia, conditions of poor fuel, problems of food and water, and finding the way to distant horizons remained a challenge exactly as faced by the original pioneers. This is the inside story of the great driving efforts and human endeavour required to complete an amazingly challenging route. With 250 photos, official maps and inside information, it is a fascinating read for any motor enthusiast. The book also briefly describes the original event, including previously unpublished photographs.
Author | : Genevieve Obert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Automobile racing drivers |
ISBN | : 9781571780850 |
Genevieve Obert discusses the experiences she had while competing in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge in 1997.
Author | : Paul French |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2012-04-24 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1101580380 |
Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger from the author of City of Devils Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a British schoolgirl in January 1937. The mutilated body of Pamela Werner was found at the base of the Fox Tower, which, according to local superstition, is home to the maliciously seductive fox spirits. As British detective Dennis and Chinese detective Han investigate, the mystery only deepens and, in a city on the verge of invasion, rumor and superstition run rampant. Based on seven years of research by historian and China expert Paul French, this true-crime thriller presents readers with a rare and unique portrait of the last days of colonial Peking.
Author | : Rosie Thomas |
Publisher | : Virago |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2001-12-06 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781860498114 |
On 6th September 1997, Rosie Thomas, mother of two, bestselling author of a dozen novels, nearing fifty years of age, stepped into a Volvo Amazon in Beijing that was to take her half-way across the world. She and her co-driver - nearly twenty years her junior - Phil Bowen, a pearl diver, charter boat skipper and photographer, were set to retrace the run of the first ever international motor rally. The excitement of the daily time challenge, the strange camaraderie, the bickering over who should drive, the dangerous endurance test of miles on dirt roads, up mountains and through deserts, followed by nights spent sleeping outdoors or in flea pit hotels, is more than matched by Rosie's own internal journey, including a near-death experience at the top of the Himalayas.
Author | : Vincent Goossaert |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2020-03-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1684174546 |
"By looking at the activities of Taoist clerics in Peking, this book explores the workings of religion as a profession in one Chinese city during a period of dramatic modernization. The author focuses on ordinary religious professionals, most of whom remained obscure temple employees. Although almost forgotten, they were all major actors in urban religious and cultural life.The clerics at the heart of this study spent their time training disciples, practicing and teaching self-cultivation, performing rituals, and managing temples. Vincent Goossaert shows that these Taoists were neither the socially despised illiterates dismissed in so many studies, nor otherworldly ascetics, but active participants in the religious economy of the city. In exploring exactly what their crucial role was, he addresses the day-to-day life of modern Chinese religion from the perspective of ordinary religious specialists. This approach highlights the social processes, institutions, and networks that transmit religious knowledge and mediate between prestigious religious traditions and the people in the street. In modern Chinese religion, the Taoists are such key actors. Without them, ""Taoist ritual"" and ""Taoist self-cultivation"" are just empty words."
Author | : Ruben Lundgren |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789462264175 |
Author | : John Blofeld |
Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2001-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1570626375 |
In his early twenties, John Blofeld spent what he describes as "three exquisitely happy years" in Peking during the era of the last emperor, when the breathtaking greatness of China's ancient traditions was still everywhere evident. Arriving in 1934, he found a city imbued with the atmosphere of the recent imperial past and haunted by the powerful spirit of the late Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi. He entered a world of magnificent palaces and temples of the Forbidden City, of lotus-covered lakes and lush pleasure-gardens, of bustling bazaars and peaceful bathhouses, and of "flower houses" with their beautiful young courtesans versed in the arts of pleasing men. With a novelists' command of detail and dialogue, Blofeld vividly re-creates the magic of these years and conveys to the reader his appreciation and nostalgia for a way of life long vanished.
Author | : Paul French |
Publisher | : Penguin Group Australia |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2014-07-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0143800361 |
At the conclusion of 'the war to end war', the victorious powers set about redesigning the world map at the Paris Peace Conference. For China, Versailles presented an opportunity to regain territory lost to Japan at the start of the war. Yet, despite early encouragement from the world's superpowers, the country was to be severely disappointed. In this First World War China Special Paul French explores China's betrayal by the West, the charismatic advocates it sent to the conference and the hugely significant May Fourth Movement that resulted from the treaty.