Around the World in a Napier: The Story of two Motoring Pioneers [Audiobook] download free by Andrew M. Jepson
- Listen audiobook: Around the World in a Napier: The Story of two Motoring Pioneers
- Author: Andrew M. Jepson
- Release date: 2014/8/28
- Publisher: THE HISTORY PRESS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780752497730
- Rating: 9.01 of 10
- Votes: 428
- Review by: Madelyn Marchand
- Review rating: 8.18 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/6
- Duration: 1H33M52S in 256 kbps (25.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-19
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, WAV, FLAC, MP3, MPEG4, Shorten (compression CBZ, ZIP, 7-ZIP, RZ, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 128
- Includes a PDF summary of 10 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 7M32S (2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: In the nineteenth century, Jules Verne imagined a journey round the world. At the start of the twentieth century, an American millionaire, Charles J. Glidden, did it for real - though it took many more than eighty days. Assisted by Charles Thomas, a Sussex engineer, the millionaire took his Napier car twice around the world, to places that had never seen a powered vehicle. The journeys took them across thirty-nine countries on four continents. In Switzerland they were arrested for driving on a forbidden road. Later they fitted the car with railroad wheels and drove to Vancouver on the tracks of the Canadian Pacific. During their travels they met people of all kinds, from impoverished pilgrims to maharajahs. In Fiji there was an encounter with the last cannibal; in militarist Japan they experienced anti-Western attitudes.Andrew Jepson tells the fascinating story of these ground-breaking journeys with the aid of images taken from Charles Thomas' own photograph albums. This is a must-read for all motoring enthusiasts.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Biography: General, Travel Writing, Motor Cars, Expeditions, Road & Motor Vehicles
- Download servers: Dropbox, Google Drive, FreakShare, Uploaded, CmisSync. Compressed in CBZ, ZIP, 7-ZIP, RZ, RAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 16.58 USD
- Dimensions: 156x234x10.16mm
- Weight: 294.84g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Stroud, United Kingdom
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