Prince Borghese's Trail: 10,000 Miles Over Two Continents, Four Desserts, and the Roof of the World in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge
Language: English
Published by Chicago Review Press, 1999
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- Title
- Prince Borghese's Trail: 10,000 Miles Over Two Continents, Four Desserts, and the Roof of the World in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge
- Author
- Obert, Genevieve
- Publisher
- Chicago Review Press
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1571780858
- ISBN 13
- 9781571780850
- Item weight
- 1.48 pounds
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From the Back Cover
The 1997 Peking to Paris passed through China, Tibet, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Austria, Germany, and France, traversing some of the most rugged, remote, and magical landscape on the planet. The dangers are real: Genny and Linda drive at times entirely alone through vast deserts of fundamentalist Islamic countries in makeshift purdah; an accident in Pakistan claims the lives of a German father and son team. Fast-paced, witty, and compulsively readable, Prince Borghese's Trail is packed with fascinating sketches of far-away places and their histories. The book provides a crash course in the functions and failings of vintage autos, and offers haunting flashbacks from Luigi Barzini's celebrated account of the original rally interwoven with the day by day rigors and dangers of flogging fragile classic cars over narrow mountain roads, through streams, and across searing deserts.
Prince Borghese's Trail is satisfying adventure travel writing, with a crowded cast of heroic daredevils and eccentric characters-and Obert sharply sizes up her fellow ralliers and their foibles: there are the handsome British boys of Team Chocky in their 1928 Bentley; Hermann the German, who comes down with altitude sickness on the way to Everest Camp and is found raving in a Tibetan family's tent; a middle-aged romance novelist and her rakish young driver; rally promoter Philip Young, who hectors the competitors like a drill instructor and tucks mash notes under the Hillman's windshield wipers ("Go like the wind today!"), and teammate Linda, with her bagful of jumbled currencies she dubs "frugles" and her quest for a perfect martini. Daily rumors sweep the rally; co-drivers stop speaking or come to blows. Ultimately Genny and Linda achieve their goal (a respectable place at the finish line, a Gold Medal and the Women's Cup) through a combination of daring, driving skill and mechanical smarts, and the liberal use of duct tape.
Prince Borghese's Trail is about the love of automobiles and driving, and the passion for adventure in strange and beautiful places. It's about those peak moments of "motoring" once described by Virginia Woolf, when, climbing a hill or rounding a hairpin turn, one sees "the heart of the world uncovered for a moment."
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