Race of the Century The Heroic True Story of the 1908 New York to Paris Auto Race【電子書籍】[ Julie M. Fenster ]

＜p＞On the morning of February 12, 1908, six cars from four different countries lined up in the swirling snow of Times Square, surrounded by a frenzied crowd of 250,000. The seventeen men who started the New York to Paris auto race were an international roster of personalities: a charismatic Norwegian outdoorsman, a witty French count, a pair of Italian sophisticates, an aristocratic German army officer, and a cranky mechanic from Buffalo, New York. President Theodore Roosevelt congratulated them by saying, “I like people who do something, not the good safe man who stays at home.” These men were doing something no man had ever done before, and their journey would take them very far from home.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Their course was calculated at more than 21,000 miles, across three continents and six countries. It would cross over mountain rangesーsome as high as 10,000 feetーand through Arctic freeze and desert heat, from drifting snow to blowing sand. Bridgeless rivers and seas of mud blocked the way, ．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る