The Story of the World’s Most Romantic Highway
by Nicol Smith
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The Story of the World’s Most Romantic Highway
by Nicol Smith
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This is a very interesting old book. It was published in 1940 by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, Indianapolis & New York. The book measures 6 3/8 inches by 9 3/8 inches and contains 333 pages. There is no dust jacket. The maroon cloth cover of the book shows signs of wear to the edges, corners and to the top and bottom of the spine. The cover is soiled. The spine is shaky. The book has been repaired at the front hinge, back hinge with wide clear tape. The back of the half title page has been taped to the back of the frontispiece with the same tape. The pages show no signs of rips. Some of the pages have cosmetic water spotting. This does not affect the readability of the text in any way. You should be able to see this in some of the scanned photos below. The flaps of the dust jacket have been taped to the back side of the front free end page. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this unique old book fair. It is a good readable copy.
Contents:
Bottom: The railroad skirts streams surging down into tropical jungle.…Japan is now threatening to bomb every bridge on this line.
Please note: This copy of the book does not have the dust jacket. This excerpt is purely for your information so that you can get an idea about what the book is about.
Excerpt - Dust Jacket:
A few years ago the Burma road was merely a narrow, remote oriental highway that few people knew about and fewer people cared. Today, it is a first-class military objective--the bomb-scarred life-line to the heart of embattled China.
When Nicol Smith wanted to drive the road himself, the authorities told him that there wasn’t a chance. For one thing it was the wet season. Try to drive over it, and he’d be washed down, off and up. Second reason-the Chinese Government wouldn’t let him. Burma Road is their private military secret, but Nicol Smith has a way with him. He succeeded in driving over Burma Road.
His was an amazing journey into the heart of the East--on this fabulous road that follows an ancient course, but is a new road, a road built out of bitter necessity by the labor of thousands of heroic coolies. Over it, from British Burma, north from the wilderness of mountain jungle which lies behind French Indo-China, into the heart of beleaguered China, move the motor transports, the caravans laden with munitions and supplies. It was a journey studded with adventure-through misty valleys and over sheer crags with the specter of sudden death ever at hand.
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