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The Last Overland: 21,000 km, 23 Countries and One Very Old Land Rover

English

By (author): Alex Bescoby

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023

* NOW A MAJOR DOCUMENTARY SERIES ON ALL 4 *


This is a fabulous adventure reckless, insanely ambitious and filled with sweat, tears and laughter ... irresistible reading. Joanna Lumley

Alex Bescoby weaves travel, adventure, history and the contemporary together like no one else. His great gift is to take us on a journey through past and present.' Dan Snow
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A journey that I dont think could be made again today. It was this comment by Sir David Attenborough on the fiftieth anniversary of the iconic First Overland expedition that became an irresistible challenge for filmmaker and adventurer Alex Bescoby.

In 1955, Attenborough, then a young TV producer, was approached by six recent university graduates determined to drive the entire length of Eurasia, from London to Singapore. It was the unclimbed Everest of motoring many had tried, none had succeeded. Sensing this time might be different, Attenborough gave the expedition enough film reel to cover their attempt. The 19,000-mile journey completed by Tim Slessor and the team captivated a nation emerging from postwar austerity. Tims book, The First Overland, soon became the bible of the overlanding religion.

Inspired by the First Overland, Alex made contact with now eighty-six-year-old Tim and together they planned an epic recreation of the original trip, this time from Singapore to London. Their goal was to complete the legendary journey started more than sixty years ago in the original Land Rover. In awe of the unstoppable Tim, and haunted by his own grandfathers declining health, Alex and his team soon find themselves battling rough roads, breakdowns and Oxfords constantly leaky roof to discover a world changed for the better and worse since the first expedition.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 300g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Jul 2023
  • Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781789295498

About Alex Bescoby

Alex Bescoby is an award-winning documentary filmmaker writer and presenter with a love of history travel and storytelling. A Cambridge University history and politics graduate he has written for BBC News the Telegraph National Geographic and Lonely Planet. His long- and short-form films have been shown by global broadcasters including the BBC History Channel Discovery and Canal+.

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