San Francisco & Tulsa: Council Oak Books, (1999). First edition - A classic travel adventure - "The original Peking to Paris rally took place in June of 1907, when Italian Prince Scipione Borghese, accompanied by journalist Luigi Barzini, set out in his forty-horsepower Itala on what would be a grueling sixty-day race to Paris. Ninety years later, the author, Genny Obert, and co-driver Linda Dodwell set out in a classic Hillman Hunter, departing from the Great Wall along with ninety-six other driving teams also racing for Paris, in a recreation of that historic rally. The 1997 Peking to Paris passed through China, Tibet, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Austria, Germany, and France, traversing some of the most rugged, remote, and magical landscape on the planet. The dangers are real: Genny and Linda drive at times entirely alone through vast deserts of fundamentalist Islamic countries in makeshift purdah; an accident in Pakistan claims the lives of a German father and son team... The book provides a crash course in the functions and failings of vintage autos, and offers haunting flashbacks from Luigi Barzini's celebrated account of the original rally interwoven with the day by day rigors and dangers of flogging fragile classic cars over narrow mountain roads, through streams, and across searing deserts." Maps, color photographs and an appendix with an entry list and final placement. 308 pp. ISBN: 1-571780858.