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The Story of Transcontinental Motoring
出版Norton, 1969
主題Travel / Essays & Travelogues
ISBN039308616X9780393086164
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=9vsaAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Eighty years ago, motoring of almost any kind was an adventure, yet men always strove to achieve something out of the common run. Nicholson recounts more than thirty of the landmarks which signposted man's ambition to drive a car where none had gone before -- from the first inter-urban drive of 1888, via the first transcontinental trip in 1903 and the first round-the-world run in 1908, to the conquest of the last land continent in 1957-58. All these first involved horrifying risks, crazy feats of daring, and fantastic luck. While exploring the world's most lonely and dangerous places, these adventurers also explored the possibilities -- and limitations -- of a fallible machine.