The Race To The Future Av Kassia St Clair

<p>In June 1907 five automobiles, with sponsors including Louis Vuitton, Pirelli, Dunlop and Mumm Champagne, roared over a start line near the Forbidden City in Beijing. Two continents, two months and 8,000 miles later, they had changed the world.<br><br>Their quest took the racers over mountain ranges, through forests and across deserts. With few roads, they drove on muddy tracks amidst donkeys, carts and people on foot. Their automobiles crashed through spindly wooden bridges and had to be floated across rivers. Rifts developed between rival participants and a global audience followed every twist and turn with bated breath, devouring reports telegraphed to journalists across the world.<br><br>The Peking-Paris took place on the precipice of a new world, born out of profound social, cultural and technological change. <i>Race to the Future</i> is not only a gripping, immersive narrative of the race, capturing the unbelievable events that took place, but it is a kaleidoscopic expos¿eveal

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