LEADER 03776nam 2200493 450 001 9910159425303321 005 20230803214353.0 010 $a1-62636-252-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000892412 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5304406 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5304406 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11530865 035 $a(OCoLC)1028944955 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000892412 100 $a20210906d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aPeking to Paris $elife and love on a short drive around half the world /$fDina Bennett 210 1$aNew York, New York State :$cSkyhorse Publishing,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (174 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a1-62087-800-3 311 $a1-62914-657-9 327 $aIntro -- Title -- Copyright -- Front Matter -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface: Flirting with Disaster -- Beijing: Take One -- Courthouse Revelations -- Why I Said Yes -- Beijing: Take Two -- Grill That Beaver, Ride That Ditch -- Car Troubles -- What I Learned -- Beijing: Take Three -- In Which I Make Friends -- Finding Roxanne -- Three, Two, One -- Into the Chinese Countryside -- Frozen -- Borders: Take One -- Time Trial -- Sandstorm -- Giving Up Gold -- Ulaanbaatar Pizza -- A Ulaanbaatar Pizza -- The Nature of Things -- Trouble-Free Day, Troubling Evening -- What Women Do -- Circus Elephant -- Morning Rituals -- A New Country -- Our Private Heaven -- Fixers -- Siberian Cartoons -- Police Procedural -- Truckin' -- Ballet -- Going Solo -- Borders: Take Two -- Race Bunny -- Bonds -- Finished? -- Post P2P Blues -- Epilogue: Are We There Yet? -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix 1: Roxanne's Rebuild -- Appendix 2: Peking to Paris Motor Challenge 2007 Route -- Appendix 3: Peking to Paris Competitor Vehicles -- Appendix 4: What Roxanne Carried with Her -- Appendix 5: Rally Terminology. 330 $aIn May 2007, leaving China's Great Wall is Car 84, one of 128 antique autos racing in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge. It's guided by one Dina Bennett, the world's least likely navigator: a daydreamer prone to carsickness, riddled with self-doubt, and married to a thrill-seeking perfectionist who is half-human, half-racecar. What could possibly go wrong? Funny, self-deprecating, and marred by only a few acts of great fortitude, Peking to Paris is first and foremost a voyage of transformation. The reader is swept on a wild, emotional ride, with romance and adversity, torment and triumph. Starting in Beijing, Dina and her husband, Bernard, limp across the Gobi, Siberia, Baltic States, and south to Paris in a 1940 Cadillac LaSalle, while Dina nurses the absurd hope that she can turn herself into a person of courage and patience. Writing for every woman who's ever doubted herself and any man who's wondered what the woman traveling with him is thinking, Dina brings the reader with her as she deftly sidesteps rock-throwing Mongolians and locks horns with Russians left over from the Interpol era-not to mention getting a sandstorm facial and racing rabbits on a curvy country road. Come along for the ride with a dashboard diva!. 606 $aAutomobile rallies$zAsia 606 $aAutomobile rallies$zEurope 606 $aMarried people$xTravel 615 0$aAutomobile rallies 615 0$aAutomobile rallies 615 0$aMarried people$xTravel. 676 $a796.72 686 $aTRV001000$aTRA001010$aTRV003020$aTRV009000$2bisacsh 700 $aBennett$b Dina$f1955-$01242815 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910159425303321 996 $aPeking to Paris$92882949 997 $aUNINA