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First overland
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- Book Synopsis
- Decades before Race Across the World, six friends made the epic journey from London to Singapore and back in two Land Rovers. Foreword by SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Why not? No-one had ever done it: one of the longest of all overland journeys, from the English Channel to Singapore. Several expeditions had tried. Some had reached the Persian deserts; a few, the Indian plains. But none had gone further: over the jungle-clad Assamese mountains, across northern Burma, to Thailand and Malaya. It was 1955. For the final 3,000 miles, it seemed, there were 'too many rivers and too few roads'. But no-one really knew... They were undergraduates with no money, no cars-no nothing, except cool audacity. They wheedled and cajoled, coaxing the BBC into supplying film for a possible series; 'persuading' Rover to lend them two factory-fresh off-road vehicles; sweet-talking a book publisher into offering an advance. By the time they set off, their eighty-plus sponsors ranged from whiskey distillers to collapsible bucket-makers. Seven months and 12,000 miles later, two weary, police-escorted Land Rovers rolled into Singapore to flash-bulbs and champagne. Here, their bestseller is republished, with a foreword by Sir David Attenborough. He had given them that film, after all.
- About The Author
- Tim Slessor was a British filmmaker, presenter, traveller and author. He is best known as the scribe and assistant cameraman for the 1955-1956 Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition from London to Singapore, which resulted in First Overland. Graduating from Cambridge University with a degree in Geography, he joined the BBC in 1957 and for more than 30 years worked with the BBC making documentaries all over the world, receiving a Peabody award. Slessor ended his BBC career as deputy head of its features documentary department and subsequently turned to freelance work - writing for various magazines and producing for National Geographic. His filmography includes, as Producer and Director, "Australia", "Looking at Britain", and "Looking at the United States".. He also authored More Than Cowboys: Travels Through the History of the American West.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781805265634
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Hurst & Company, (05 March 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 mm
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