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Where's Sharawrah?: A Truck Driver's Adventure across the Arabian Desert

By Gordon Pearce

Book information

Publisher
CompanionHouse Books
Year
2015
ISBN
9781910456002, 9781906853372, 9781908397102, 9781905523993, 9781908397614, 9781908397157, 9781908397874
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
7 MB (7187283 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-03 16:41:21
Biography & Autobiography; Nonfiction; BIO026000

Description

Three articulated trucks load in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: two Volvo 4X2 European road artics and a Mercedes 6X6 desert artic. Their destination is Sharawrah, somewhere south of The Empty Quarter. Seven days to travel a thousand kilometers, a third of which are open desert. Seven days that will turn into seventy.... This is the true story of Gordon Pearce, an English truck driver determined to get the job done. With the help of Bedouins, he crossed three hundred kilometers of unpredictable desert in the height of the summer of 1978. Aside from the physical challenges, he also has to battle bureaucracy and begins to dread hearing the word bukkera (tomorrow). Told in an ironic modest style and illustrated with photos from that time, Where's Sharawrah? is a captivating book for vehicle enthusiasts and anyone who is passionate about truck adventures. [Subject: Memoir, Transportation]

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