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First edition of Davies's A Light Car Odyssey, containing 50 photographs of the journey and 4 route maps.
First edition of Davies's A Light Car Odyssey, containing 50 photographs of the journey and 4 route maps.
First edition of Davies's A Light Car Odyssey, containing 50 photographs of the journey and 4 route maps.
First edition of Davies's A Light Car Odyssey, containing 50 photographs of the journey and 4 route maps.

8612 miles in an Alvis 12/50 from India to England


DAVIES, R.W.H.

A Light Car Odyssey, being the diary of a road journey through India, Persia, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Europe to England.

London, "India" Publications Ltd, 1932.

£850.00
£850.00

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Davies, upon his retirement from the Indian Civil Service, was determined to drive his Alvis 12/50 from India to England 'without any vast preparation'. He was not the driver: that was his man Abdul Kader, who acted as driver, mechanic and man-servant to Davies on his travels. It took them just over three months to complete the journey, covering nearly 10,000 miles, either at the wheel of the car or in a train with the car onboard.

First edition; 8vo (24.5 x 19 cm); 50 photographic illustrations including frontispiece, 4 maps, & route map illustration on endpapers, contemporary ownership inscription to front endpaper; publisher's full cloth with paper title and vignette laid to upper board as issued, a fine copy; 176pp.

Stock code 115118

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First edition of Davies's A Light Car Odyssey, containing 50 photographs of the journey and 4 route maps.

A Light Car Odyssey,

£850.00
£850.00

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