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Magnificent men in their automobiles: the 1907 Peking-Paris rally

Kassia St Clair tells the gripping story of how competitors drove 15,000 km across mountains, desert and flooded rivers to prove the practicality of the early motor car

A map showing the route of the 1907 transcontinental motor rally [Alamy]
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  • The Race to the Future: The Adventure that Accelerated the Twentieth Century

    Kassia St Clair

    John Murray, pp. 384, £20

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