← Previous – Chapter 4B – Next → Stagnated and Cultural Influence ••••• We agreed to take him. He would meet us in Jerez de la Frontera in southern Spain as soon as he completed arrangements with his publisher, and wound up his personal
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← Previous – Chapter 4A – Next → The Reins in Spain ••••• The ride down the Pyrenees was lovely, a panorama of green-on-white peaks gleaming in the spring sun, a serenade of gurgling streams and thunder in the gorge from the melting snows.
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← Previous – Chapter 3B – Next → Difficulty Leveled up ••••• The 8,000-foot pass had been open for a week, it was true, but had been blocked again by a storm two days before, and more snow was forecast for the evening. He
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← Previous – Chapter 3A – Next → Our Moveable Feast ••••• Caption of first photo on page 22 of the printed publication:After unloading the Land Cruiser, camper-trailer, and a half ton of supplies and equipment from the Queen Elizabeth in Cherbourg, France, we
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← Previous – Chapter 2D – Next → Final Preparation, Publicity and Commencement ••••• The week before we left, Al dragged me around to picture agents who wanted to market our photos, magazine editors who wanted to buy our stories, and sponsors who wanted
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← Previous – Chapter 2C – Next → Impediments, Interested and Disinterested ••••• By the time I returned to New York, Al’s apartment looked like a warehouse. Where the thick carpets had been and where the colored lights once glowed, now crates and cartons
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← Previous – Chapter 2B – Next → Needed Resources and Logistics ••••• My proposed route would abandon the tourist shortcut through Greece and Turkey. Instead, we would drive across all of North Africa from Tangier to Cairo, through the Sinai Peninsula into the
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← Previous – Chapter 2A – Next → The Beginning ••••• It began on a gray December day in New York. I was sitting in the offices of Argosy, overlooking the dismal winter scene twenty floors below. The magazine was publishing the story of
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← Previous – NR01 – Next → The End ••••• We are in a cellar in Dacca. We know no one; we are strangers in the city. Air-raid sirens are howling. The skies echo with the drumming of approaching warplanes, and we listen for
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← Previous – Intro – Next → Introduction to the 1999 EditionWe Find We Were Last Over Land••••• When Harold Stephens and I formed our expedition and set out in 1965 to drive around the world, we had two goals. First, we wanted to
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