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

Where's Sharawrah?: A Truck Driver's Adventure Across the Arabian Desert
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Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Total Pages : 146
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ISBN-10 : 9781910456187
ISBN-13 : 1910456187
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Book Synopsis Where's Sharawrah?: A Truck Driver's Adventure Across the Arabian Desert by : Gordon Pearce

Download or read book Where's Sharawrah?: A Truck Driver's Adventure Across the Arabian Desert written by Gordon Pearce and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three articulated trucks load in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: two Volvo 4X2 European road artics and a Mercedes 6X6 desert artic. Their destination is Sharawrah, somewhere south of The Empty Quarter. Seven days to travel a thousand kilometers, a third of which are open desert. Seven days that will turn into seventy.... This is the true story of Gordon Pearce, an English truck driver determined to get the job done. With the help of Bedouins, he crossed three hundred kilometers of unpredictable desert in the height of the summer of 1978. Aside from the physical challenges, he also has to battle bureaucracy and begins to dread hearing the word bukkera (tomorrow). Told in an ironic modest style and illustrated with photos from that time, Where's Sharawrah? is a captivating book for vehicle enthusiasts and anyone who is passionate about truck adventures. [Subject: Memoir, Transportation]


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