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Revision as of 23:41, 20 July 2010
| Author | Tim Slessor |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Nonfiction |
| Publisher | Signal Books Ltd |
Publication date | November 2005 |
| Publication place | UK |
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| Pages | 256 pages (New Ed Edition Paperback) |
| ISBN | 1-904955-14-2 |
First Overland: London-Singapore by Land Rover is a 1957 book by Tim Slessor, originally published by The Companion Book Club under the title First Overland: The Story of the Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition. The 2005 50th anniversary edition also contains a foreword by co-author Sir David Attenborough. The book recounts the 1955 journey taken by six Oxford & Cambridge university students as they drove two factory fresh Land Rover Series I Station Wagons from London to Singapore and back. The book and accompanying film footage are historically significant, as they not only recount the first such journey of this type by vehicle, but also document the last recorded vehicular journey along the Ledo Road from India into Burma, as shortly afterwards the boarder between the two countries was closed.
one might reasonably claim that both the journey and its telling are now regarded as classics of their kind...
— Extract from the foreword by Sir David Attenborough