Tim Slessor: 2 books
More Than Cowboys
Travels Through the History of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
So many books about the American West leave out the more intriguing details:When, in 1803, the young USA doubled its size with the purchase from France of an unexplored vastness called La Louisiane, it was a British bank which lent the Americans most of the 15 million that they didn’t have. So the...
First Overland
London to Singapore by Land Rover
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Why Not? After all, no-one had ever done it before. It would be one of the longest of all overland journeys half way round the world, from the English Channel to Singapore. They knew that several expeditions had already tried it. Some had got as far as the desrts of Persia; a few had even reached the...