| Description |
4 videodiscs (DVD) (ca. 70 min. ea) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Summary |
On May 15 2005 a crew of 15 - ten drivers and co-drivers and five support crew - set off in five 100 year-old cars on a 14,000 kilometre journey. It was to be a daring recreation of the Peking to Paris Raid and a journey that took them more than a third of the way around the globe. This is the story of their spectacular adventure, told as a four-part documentary. |
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Part one follows the preparations for the expedition, the start from Beijing (Peking), the journey North West past the Great Wall to Mongolia and on to the perils of the Gobi Desert. Part two takes us from the Gobi desert to the Mongolian capital Ulan Baatar, across the Mongolian border into Siberia, and the spectacular journey across Lake Baikal. In part three the drivers nurse their battered cars across the vast and beautiful landscape of Siberia. Revelling in the local hospitality they finally cross the Urals and into Europe. Part 4 takes our adventurers across Russia to Moscow and St Petersburg. Then it’s south through Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Germany, and the heart-stopping run to the finish line in Paris. |
| Notes |
Off-air recording of National Geographic broadcast May 8, 2010. Copied under Part VA of the Copyright Act |
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Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
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No rating given |
| Credits |
Writter/Director: Peter George |
| Performer |
Narrator: Warren Brown |
| Notes |
Originally produced : Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2006 |
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DVD. Region unspecified. |
| Subject |
Documentary films
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Travelogues (Television programs)
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Automobile rallies
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Automobile racing
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| SUBJECT |
Asia -- Description and travel
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Europe -- Description and travel
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| Author |
George, Peter
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Brown, Warren
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National Geographic Channel (Television station)
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