Robert Cox, Roger Sherwin, Tony Thompson

The Kombi Trail

Across Three Continents in a VW Van

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Produktbeschreibung

Cambridge, 1961. A group of students set off on the trip of a lifetime. Against the backdrop of the Cold War they travel through the Soviet Union to the Middle East, South Asia and on to Africa. Their mode of transport? The iconic VW Kombi. This book tells the story of that trip and the many experiences that they encountered along the way.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 178mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1246g
• ISBN-13: 9781780763767
• ISBN-10: 178076376X
• Artikelnr.: 35753352

Autorenporträt

Robert Cox, Roger Sherwin and Tony Thompson

Inhaltsangabe

Preface - Fifty years later
Prologue - Thumbing your way through Africa
An idea comes to life
A curtain opens
1: Hiccups and rumbles
2: Into the Soviet fastness
3: Summer in Moscow
4: How to get out of Russia
5: Balkan obstacles
From Asia's edge
6: Anatolian fastness
7: A bit too far east
8: Iranian Dynasties
9: Children of Abraham
To Asia's heartland
10: Turkish connections
11: Testing Afghan patience
12: Kabul before the winter
13: The Oxus - how Mehmed pushed his luck
South to Serendipity
14: Flavours of India
15: Nepalese fastness
16: A would be paradise - Ceylon
Tasting independence
17: Into Africa
18: North to the Nile
19: Stand-off in Cyprus
Epilogue
Appendix: Distances travelled by each Kombi