{"product_id":"race-across-the-world-by-john-smailes-9781760876951","title":"Race Across the World","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1968, ninety-eight competitors stormed out of London on the world's greatest automotive adventure, the London to Sydney Marathon, the most ambitious and epic car race ever staged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFour weeks later they arrived in Sydney—or at least half of them did. The others lay in ruin along its 10,000-mile route. Unimaginable now in either concept or execution, the marathon captured the rapt attention of the countries through which it passed, and of the world, as it created front-page news. It was more than a car race, more than a rally, more than the trials that opened up outback Australia only a decade before: it was the world's most gruelling test of driver and vehicle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor Australians, the race became a focal point of the rivalry between local car-manufacturing giants Holden and Ford, as the Monaro Coupe and the iconic Falcon GT went head to head. Neither was to win, but the story of their duel is motor-sporting legend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Smailes was a young journalist at the time, covering the race for the \u003ci\u003eSydney Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e. Fifty years after this extraordinary race was run, John's dramatic, compelling and utterly fascinating story—drawing on his own first-hand, eyewitness account and enhanced by in-depth interviews over the intervening years with all the race's key participants—brings the marathon vividly to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47362958622956,"sku":"9781760876951","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/26156453482814.jpg?v=1772907100","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/race-across-the-world-by-john-smailes-9781760876951","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}