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St. Clair, Kassia2023
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The world of 1907 is poised between the old and the new: communist regimes will replace imperial ones in China and Russia; the telegraph is transforming modern communication and the car will soon displace the horse. Kassia St Clair traces the fascinating stories of two interlocking races - setting the derring-do (and sometimes cheating) of one of the world's first car races against the backdrop of a larger geopolitical and technological rush to the future, as the rivalry grows between countries and empires, building up to the cataclysmic event that changed everything - the First World War. 'The Race to the Future' is the incredible true story of the quest against the odds that shaped the world we live in today.
Main title:
The race to the future : 8000 miles to Paris : the adventure that accelerated the twentieth century / Kassia St Clair.
Author:
St. Clair, Kassia, author
Imprint:
London : John Murray, 2023.
Collation:
320 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781529386059 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
796.720904796.7209796.72 ST
Language:
English
Subject:
Automobile racing -- History -- 20th centuryHistory, Modern -- 20th centuryNineteen-o-seven, A.D.Sport
BRN:
2667534
Bookmark link:
https://miltonkeynes.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2667534
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Kingston LibraryAdult non-fiction796.72 STCOnloan - Due: 12 May 2026

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