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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Bennett, Dina, 1955-     Subjects     Bennett, Dina, 1955- -- Travel.     Peking to Paris Motor Challenge (3rd : 2007)     Automobile rallies -- Asia.     Automobile rallies -- Europe.     Married people -- Travel.     China -- Description and travel.     Mongolia -- Description and travel.     Russia (Federation) -- Description and travel.     Europe, Western -- Description and travel.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bennett, Dina, 1955-       by title:      Peking to Paris : li...       by call number:      796.73 B471p     Search the Web     Bennett, Dina, 1955-     Bennett, Dina, 1955- -- Travel.     Peking to Paris Motor Challenge (3rd : 2007)     Automobile rallies -- Asia.     Automobile rallies -- Europe.     Married people -- Travel.     China -- Description and travel.     Mongolia -- Description and travel.     Russia (Federation) -- Description and travel.     Europe, Western -- Description and travel.       MARC Display

Peking to Paris : life and love on a short drive around half the world / Dina Bennett. by Bennett, Dina, 1955- Skyhorse Publishing, c2013. Call #: 796.73 B471p Subjects Bennett, Dina, 1955- -- Travel.   Peking to Paris Motor Challenge (3rd : 2007)   Automobile rallies -- Asia.   Automobile rallies -- Europe.   Married people -- Travel.   China -- Description and travel.   Mongolia -- Description and travel.   Russia (Federation) -- Description and travel.   Europe, Western -- Description and travel. ISBN:  9781620878002 (hc.) 1620878003 (hc.) Description:  x, 262 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Contents:  Appendices: 1. Roxanne's rebuild -- 2. Peking to Paris Motor Challenge 2007 route -- 3. Peking to Paris competitor vehicles -- 4. What Roxanne carried with her -- 5. Rally terminology. Summary:  "In May 2007, leaving China's Great Wall is Car 84, one of 128 antique autos racing in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge. It's guided by one Dina Bennett, the world's least likely navigator: a daydreamer prone to carsickness, riddled with self-doubt, and married to a thrill-seeking perfectionist who is half-human, half-racecar. What could possibly go wrong? Funny, self-deprecating, and marred by only a few acts of great fortitude, Peking to Paris is first and foremost a voyage of transformation. The reader is swept on a wild, emotional ride, with romance and adversity, torment and triumph. Starting in Beijing, Dina and her husband, Bernard, limp across the Gobi, Siberia, Baltic States, and south to Paris in a 1940 Cadillac LaSalle, while Dina nurses the absurd hope that she can turn herself into a person of courage and patience. Writing for every woman who's ever doubted herself and any man who's wondered what the woman traveling with him is thinking, Dina brings the reader with her as she deftly sidesteps rock-throwing Mongolians and locks horns with Russians left over from the Interpol era--not to mention getting a sandstorm facial and racing rabbits on a curvy country road"--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Travel memoirs. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Bedford Public Library Adult Nonfiction 796.73 B471p Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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