Border Crossing: On the Road from Peking to Paris.
by Thomas, Rosie; Bowen, Philip (photographer)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0316647128
- ISBN 13
- 9780316647120
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London: Little, Brown & Company, 1998. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), colour photos, minor edgewear jacket (top spine & top edge creased). 312 pp. (This copy: Standard hardback with dustjacket.) Rosie Thomas, and her co-driver Phil Bowen, take a 1968 Volvo Amazon motor car from London across the roof of the world. In September 1997, an assembly of 98 vintage and classic cars gathered in Beijing, with the finish line in Paris lying 45 days and 16, 000 kilometres ahead. First edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25799
- Title
- Border Crossing: On the Road from Peking to Paris.
- Author
- Thomas, Rosie; Bowen, Philip (photographer)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0316647128
- ISBN 13
- 9780316647120
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- travel, transport, motor cars, asia, china, peking, europe, france, paris, first edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- TRAVEL & EXPLORATION;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
Biblio member since 2004
Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
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