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Where's Sharawrah? : A Truck Driver's Adventure Across the Arabian Desert

Pearce, Gordon, author

Overview

This is the true story of Gordon Pearce, an English truck driver determined to get the job done. Told in Gordon's ironic, modest style and illustrated with photos from that time, Where's Sharawah? is a captivating book for vehicle enthusiasts and anyone who is passionate about truck adventures. Three articulated trucks loaded in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Their destination was Sharawrah, somewhere south of The Empty Quarter. They were to travel a distance of a thousand kilometres of which the last three hundred was open desert. There were two Volvo 4X2 European road artics, and a Mercedes 6 X6 desert artic. \"You might have to tow the Volvos on the desert soft bits\", was the instruction. \"And don't tell anyone what you have loaded, just keep a low profile\". It all sounded easy enough. They should all be back in a week at most. Not so! It took two months fraught with difficulties. This is the true story of an English truck driver in 1978 determined to get the job done. With the help of Bedouins he crossed three hundred kilometres of unpredictable desert, south of The Empty Quarter at the height of summer. To say it was not easy is a bit of an understatement.

• Publisher: Old Pond Publishing
• Subject: Pearce, Gordon. / Truck drivers England Biography. / Deserts Arabian Peninsula. / Deserts. / Travel. / Truck drivers. / Arabian Peninsula Description and travel. / Arabian Peninsula. / England.
• ISBN: 9781910456002, 1910456004

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DS208.P32 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE