The Silk Road and Beyond
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True accounts of one man’s long-distance trucking career that began in the late 1960s, these adventurous anecdotes are told by one of the first pioneers in long-distance trucking to the Middle East, Ivor Whittall. From traveling overseas to Kuwait, driving the desert trek between Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and surviving the infamously dangerous (and sometimes deadly) Tahir Pass in Eastern Turkey that has claimed the lives of truckers with its haphazard landslides and avalanches and tricky mountainous terrain, readers get a driver’s seat perspective to Whittall’s daring career. With 72 contemporary color photos of trucks, drivers, passports, visas, and custom forms, readers will be thrust into what it was like being a long-distance trucker in the 1970s. Full of disastrous near misses, border control mishaps, intense home sickness, mechanical failures, cultural misunderstandings, and so much more, this book will urge you to buckle up.
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Ivor Whitall. The Silk Road and Beyond
CONTENTS
chapter one. FROM SMALL BEGINNINGS
chapter two. MARRIED TO THE GIRL OF MY DREAMS
chapter three. 38mph FLAT OUT!
chapter four. AT LAST, THE FUTURE BECKONS
chapter five. TALK ABOUT A VERTICAL LEARNING CURVE!
chapter six. WHY DIDN’T I LEARN GERMAN IN SCHOOL?
chapter seven. THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER
chapter eight. INTO THE UNKNOWN!
chapter nine. TURKEY, ANOTHER WORLD
chapter ten. SO THIS IS THE DESERT?
chapter eleven. A DISASTER AVERTED . . . JUST!
chapter twelve. JOB DONE, HOMEWARD BOUND!
chapter thirteen. HOME IS CALLING
chapter fourteen. PLAY BY THE RULES . . . OR ELSE!
chapter fifteen. AYDIN, NOT QUITE THE MAGICIAN AFTER ALL!
chapter sixteen. THERE’S ALWAYS SOMEONE THAT WANTS ASSISTANCE
chapter seventeen. WHAT A BLOODY FIASCO!
chapter eighteen. A RATHER TESTING TURKISH WINTER!
chapter nineteen. A NEW BEGINNING
chapter twenty. THE END OF AN ERA
chapter twenty-one. AN EPILOGUE . . . OF SORTS
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THE SILK ROAD AND BEYOND
Treacherous road in Imranli, Central Anatolia, Turkey (1978).
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