Beyond the Bosphorus, 9781910456026
Hardcover
The amazing stories of people driving to Middle-East destinations, battling against all the odds to deliver their loads, are told in this books along with the beautiful photographs of the drivers and vehicles taken at the time.

Beyond the Bosphorus

british drivers on the middle-east routes

$90.86

  • Hardcover

    248 pages

  • Release Date

    19 July 2015

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Summary

The Middle East has always been one of the most challenging destinations for lorry drivers. In the 1970s and 80s, many drivers may not have even heard of the destinations they were sent to before heading out eastwards. Along the way they endured extreme weather conditions, bureaucratic nightmares, and the physical trials of keeping themselves and their trucks operational over many thousands of miles of poorly maintained and dangerous roads. Their adventures have become legendary within the tr…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781910456026
ISBN-10:1910456020
Author:Dave Bowers
Publisher:Fox Chapel Publishers International
Imprint:Old Pond Publishing Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:248
Release Date:19 July 2015
Weight:1.15kg
Dimensions:280mm x 220mm
About The Author

Dave Bowers

Dave Bowers is a full-time freelance journalist. He has been writing features on trucks, the road haulage industry, travel, history, classic cars, tractors and repairing vehicles for a number of magazines, including Truck and Driver, Trucking, Heritage Commercials and Classic Truck for over 20 years.He has travelled extensively as a backpacker and travelled the Middle-East route during the 1970s with a number of Middle-East drivers of different nationalities.

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