LAST OVERLAND (PB)

In 1955, Attenborough, then a young TV producer, was approached by six recent university graduates determined to drive the entire length of ‘Eurasia’, from London to Singapore. The 19,000-mile journey completed by Tim Slessor and the team captivated a nation emerging from postwar austerity. Tim’s book, The First Overland, soon became the bible of the overlanding religion. Inspired by the First Overland, author Alex Bescoby made contact with now eighty-six-year-old Tim and together they planned an epic recreation of the original trip, this time from Singapore to London…