Trabant Trek : Crossing the World in a Plastic Car

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murdoch, Dan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asia--Description and travel.

Automobile travel--Asia.

Automobile travel--Europe, Eastern.

Europe, Eastern--Description and travel.

Murdoch, Dan--Travel--Asia.

Murdoch, Dan--Travel--Europe, Eastern.

Voyages and travels.

Local Subjects:

Asia--Description and travel.

Automobile travel--Asia.

Automobile travel--Europe, Eastern.

Europe, Eastern--Description and travel.

Murdoch, Dan--Travel--Asia.

Murdoch, Dan--Travel--Europe, Eastern.

Voyages and travels.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Trabant Trek

Place of Publication:

Luton : Andrews UK, 2011.

Summary:

Cambodia is a long way from Germany - thousands of miles, as it turns out. And in between are some of the world's highest mountains, most inhospitable deserts and least welcoming countries. Trying to make the journey overland was always going to be difficult. But one group of twenty-somethings, bored with the predictable wanderings of the backpacker generation, thought they'd spice things up a little. They would go by car. The worst car in the world. The infamous Soviet-era Trabant. This wo...

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Author's Note; Trabant Trek; Introduction; Why?; The Email; Team USA; World Cup 2006, Germany; Europe To Cambodia By Trabant; The Waverer; Trabant Treffen; Trabant Trek Headquarters; Picking Up The Rest Of The Fleet; Dante, Fez And Ziggy; Z-Plates; The Beginning; Zwickau; Prague, Absinthe And Punctures; Plotting A Coup; The Second Going; Romania; Trabbi Clubs In Romania; Vlad The Impaler And Count Dracula; Bulgaria; Istanbul; The Aya Sophia; Izmit; Mornings; Asmara; Socialism In Turkey

The CaucasusBallroom Dancing, Handguns And Thieves; The Oil Pan: Episode One; Lovey Throws His Toys Out Of The Pram; Bribery And Corruption In Christianity's First Nation; "Err... and Please, Big Problem"; Sightseeing And War On The Armenian Border; The Return Of Love; Leaving Georgia: Hospitality, Davit Gareja And St George; Roadside Manner; One In, One Out?; Mud, Oil And Bribery In Baku; Mud Volcanoes; Ships In The Night: Crossing The Caspian; Central Asia; Turkmenistan; Ashgabat; Battle Lines; The Darvaza Gas Crater; A Country You Cannot Leave; The KGB Are Here; Uzbekistan

Khiva: Sanitising The Slave TradeA Frightening Example Of The Trabant Trek Approach In The Qizilqum Desert; Bukhara; Maps? Where We're Going We Don't Need Maps; To Samarkand; Chaos Theory; The Pamir Mountains; Gunther's Reprieve; The Anzob Pass; On Crap; Will We, Won't We In Dushanbe?; Goodbye, Gunther; The Break Up; The Hiatus; The Pamir Highway; Impressions Of Osh And Bishkek; Notes On Showering Etiquette In Central Asia; Crossroads: An Update; Megan Has Left The Building; Religion, Vodka And Gays; Evicted; Yurt Life; The Reunion; Birthday Boy; The Plan: A Conclusion; The Northern Route

Bye Bye, BishkekKazakhstan; Entering Russia; The ATM; Zsofi; Backpacker; Gentrifying The Badlands; The World's Coldest Capital; A Note On Genghis Khan; One Week Later; Gobi: The End Of The Road; China; China; Trabbi Down; The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse; Hitting The Wall; The Cars Are Broken: Episode 302; From Six To Four; Xi'an; The Train To Spring; The Cusp Of South East Asia; South East Asia; A Sad Humiliation On Entering Laos; Big Trouble In Little China; Dante's Infirmity; Fez; Ziggy; Dante; Parasols And Elephants; New Year's Eve Laos Style; One Night In Bangkok; The Final Frontier

Victory ParadeFinale; Epilogue; Sihanoukville; Back Matter; Also Available

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786613439611

9781283439619

1283439611

9781904955177

1904955177

OCLC:

746745537