Durch
fremde Welten (Crossing fascinating
worlds)
Beijing – Munich
by a side-car motorcycle
Engelbert Boos
222 pages, 180 illustrations,
Motorbuchverlag Stuttgart
1991
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fascinating worlds
Summary
Engelbert Boos managed, what no other
German before him succeeded in: He, the „long-nosed“ fellow
from the occident, paved his way through
the jungle of the Chinese bureau- cracy
and drove with his anachron- istic Yangtse
side-car motorcycle on his own account
from China via Pakistan and Turkey to
Germany.
His ability of extemporisation, the intuition
for other cultures and an immovable optimism
helped him to cope with the 13.000 kilometres-long
distance. The author illustrates his experiences
with culture and people, with hospitable
townsfolk and hard-bitten bureaucrats suspenseful
and entertaining in his informative travelogue.
In doing so also technical details about
the Yangtse side-car motorcycle are not
missed out.
The most interesting pictures of this trip
you can find in the Photo gallery
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