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  • The Last Overland

    Singapore to London: The Return Journey of the Iconic Land Rover Expedition (with a foreword by Tim Slessor)

    by Alex Bescoby ...
    * NOW A MAJOR DOCUMENTARY SERIES ON ALL 4 *‘This is a fabulous adventure – reckless, insanely ambitious and filled with sweat, tears and laughter ... irresistible reading.’ Joanna Lumley‘Alex Bescoby weaves travel, adventure, history and the contemporary together like no one else. His great gift is to take us on a journey through past and present. By its end we have learned more about the world ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    The Last Overland

    Singapore to London: The Return Journey of the Iconic Land Rover Expedition

    by Alex Bescoby ...
    Narrated by Alex Bescoby ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 21 min

    "In 1955, a young TV producer named David Attenborough was approached by six recent graduates from Oxford and Cambridge universities determined to drive the entire length of Eurasia, as it was then known, from London to Singapore. Many tried this before, but none succeeded. Sensing this time might be different, Attenborough gave The Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition enough film reels to ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • First Overland

    London-Singapore by Land Rover

    by Tim Slessor, 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 ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • From Border to Border: Crossing the Continent by Land Rover

    by Peter Soutowood ...
    Starting an expedition requires planning, faith, and ignorance. When I set off on a trans-continental expedition in a vintage Land Rover I was strong on the second two.For Land Rover's 50th anniversary in 1998 I joined a group of fifty people from all over North America to travel off-road from Canada to Mexico. Acting as my co-drivers were my brother, father, and girlfriend, in order of declining ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Land Rover Adventures in Africa

    by David Phillips ...
    Land Rovers are the vehicles that take you to the places others can't reach – and nowhere is this more true than in Africa. Renowned Land Rover expert David Phillips takes you there in this unmissable book, in which he recounts his amazing adventures from the dunes of the Sahara Desert to the desolate mountains of Lesotho and the wildlife-rich plains and swamps of the Okavanga Delta, driving ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus