An Incredible Journey
Veloce (Verlag)
978-1-78711-165-3 (ISBN)
In May 1935, twenty-two-year-old Max Reisch and nineteen-year-old Helmuth Hahmann set out in a small motor car to find a land route from India to China. Their journey across Asia took them from Haifa to Tokyo.In this lively account, the author regales us with one story after another, struck with wonder or struggling against disaster in countries which deeply concern us today: Iraq with its oilfields, ancient Iran in the throes of modernisation, proud Afghanistan, and British India with its stunning variety of civilisation.Before the building of the Burma Road, driving from India to southern China meant sinking over the axles in mud on forest tracks and crossing torrents on rickety ferryboats. It also meant encounters with strange and fascinating peoples and places. With war already on the horizon, Reisch and Hahmann completed their round-the-world trip via Japan and the United States, arriving back in Vienna in December 1936.Originally written by Max Reisch in German, this brand new English translation by Alison Falls captures all the excitement of the journey, and features fascinating historical photos of the journey from the Reisch archives.
Maximilian Felix Gottfried Reisch (1912-1985) made his first pioneering long-distance journey when he was still a 20-year-old student in Vienna in 1933. Together with fellow-student Herbert Tichy on pillion, he rode a 250cc Puch light motorcycle from Vienna to Bombay, crossing Iraq, Iran and Baluchistan (as documented in his book "India - The Shimmering Dream"). In another break from his studies in 1935, Reisch undertook a motorcar expedition into Asia which became the round-the-world trip documented in this book. After the war, Reisch worked in the family wholesale grocery business, but by the 1950s he was again pushing back the boundaries of motor travel with journeys to the Middle East and the desert regions which so attracted him. Max wrote his adventures in a racy personal style which in no way obscures the carefully recorded details of the world he knew.
Preface by Peter ReischChapter 1 - Bitter pills, new plansChapter 2 - Four wheelsChapter 3 - The oil road to BaghdadChapter 4 - The lizard huntChapter 5 - Where the dead crowd close to AllahChapter 6 - Dust to dustChapter 7 - Foreign devilsChapter 8 - UrlajatChapter 9 - Hungarian Afghans, Bavarian AfghansChapter 10 - Closer to IndiaChapter 11 - KashmirChapter 12 - End of the first stageChapter 13 - The land of the smiling BuddhaChapter 14 - The Agency comes to callChapter 15 - Deep in the jungleChapter 16 - Folk festival at Inle lakeChapter 17 - Special deliveryChapter 18 - Dead prince and living princeChapter 19 - Honour the yellow robeChapter 20 - Laughing with SimbaChapter 21 - Two motorcycle fiendsChapter 22 - Success at lastChapter 23 - Held up in HanoiChapter 24 - Old Mr. Lai ShiChapter 25 - Motor car versus evil spiritsChapter 26 - In China it's differentChapter 27 - A war zoneChapter 28 - What Marco Polo sawChapter 29 - ShanghaiChapter 30 - Problems for the foreign visitorChapter 31 - "Yuku michi" in the land of delightsChapter 32 - The long goodbyeChapter 33 - Crossing AmericaChapter 34 - The collectorChapter 35 - Mexico to Salzburg: disaster strikes!Chapter 36 - Epilogue: the story continuesAppendix - Some notes on the Steyr 100 car
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.11.2017 |
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| Übersetzer | Alison Falls |
| Zusatzinfo | 231 |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Auto / Motorrad |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78711-165-2 / 1787111652 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78711-165-3 / 9781787111653 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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