Le Temps des Series'

enfin une saine lecture en cette rentrée littéraire, loin de Houellebecq, puisse t il resté sur son impossible ile ! ou une Nothomb, éternelle acide !
voici de quoi rever, croisiere jaune...mots évocateurs
si cela tente un Serist welcome cet itineraire m'exite bien

Classic Series Land Rover Expeditions
1: The Oxford and Cambridge Far East Expedition

In 1956, two Series I Land Rovers were the first vehicles to make the overland journey from London to Singapore. The team consisted of 6 men, and the witty, detailed account of their vehicles' preparations, repairs and supplies is re-published this month in First Overland: The Story of the Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition, by Tim Slessor (1957),

The route taken was via Vienna, Belgrade, Salonika, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Burma,Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.

Commenting upon one 24-hour session on the World War II 'Burma Road' with the Land Rovers the author states that ..".without eight forward gears, four-wheel drive, and winches our overland venture might had have unstuck a dozen times.."

In consideration of his readers Tim states that: "although on reaching our outward destination we had to turn round and come back, it occurs to me that it is expecting too much of the reader to do likewise.Ó

The return journey was commenced by ship and then completed by land from Calcutta, India.

Tim Slessor's book is being re-published this month click here for more details and to order your copy.
lien a completer !!!!

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Alu !

Pas mal, ton idée.

Conchita avec Annette, Dolores avec Catherine, Sally et la Santana 109 avec Thierry et moi comme véhicules de support...

Suffit de gagner au Loto et nous envahirons la Chine !

Takeo.

Excellent book! Bought it for myself for Christmas and just finished reading it.

Michael

Takeo a écrit :
Suffit de gagner au Loto et nous envahirons la Chine !

Takeo.

Dommage Takeo pas de chine , Singapour est une république indépendante depuis 9 Août 1965.

Sinon la ballade est super, il reste une place ?

Yo
Roland

A small turning for a great skirting !
The plains of Central Asia are broad, full and empty, the many corridors and pass then it is allowed to us to imagine a rich route of multiple meetings
Roland would find Basque origins with the borders of the Mongolian tribes… Takeo in the restaurant on the tracks of Assam… Domik… some affinities with some tibetan rider (like Ella Maillard who was travelling with english gentleman or "Elsa" from Mac Orland)

Takeo who is polyglotte devant l'éternel m'a aidé à traduire en :
" un petit détour pour un grand tour de con !"
I would like your opinion on the objective quality of this literal translation.

Also I would wish to add an extract of the livret written by Claudel for a oratorio of Darius Milhaud where Christophe Colomb déclame:
"aussi loin qu'on peut aller, j'irai !
.....................aussi loin que je ne peut aller j'irai aussi !"

What could be the currency of Series as well.

back on the dust again!!

keep in touch and let's try !!

quelques photos pour alimenter le post:http://sgrallying.blogspot.fr/2013/10/f ... e-far.html

On aurait pu fusionner les 2 posts : par là