Where's Sharawrah?: A Truck Driver's Adventure Across the Arabian Desert

by Gordon Pearce

Overview

Three articulated trucks load in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: two Volvo 4X2 European road artics and a Mercedes 6X6 desert artic. Their destination is Sharawrah, somewhere south of The Empty Quarter. Seven days to travel a thousand kilometers, a third of which are open desert. Seven days that will turn into seventy.... This is the true story of Gordon Pearce, an English truck driver determined to get the job done. With the help of Bedouins, he crossed three hundred kilometers of unpredictable desert in the height of the summer of 1978. Aside from the physical challenges, he also has to battle bureaucracy and begins to dread hearing the word bukkera (tomorrow). Told in an ironic modest style and illustrated with photos from that time, Where's Sharawrah? is a captivating book for vehicle enthusiasts and anyone who is passionate about truck adventures. [Subject: Memoir, Transportation]

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781910456187
Publisher:	Old Pond Books
Publication date:	09/03/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	152
File size:	7 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Gordon Pearce started driving trucks in 1958, travelling frequently to the Middle East and all over Europe. He retired at the age of 72 in 2011 and lives in London.

Table of Contents

Terminology 2

1 Saudi Arabia, here I come 3

2 Going south from Jeddah 23

3 Where the road ends 34

4 Across the desert to Sharawrah 44

5 Not getting any easier 58

6 So much to learn 69

7 Army escort… what next? 77

8 Two down, one to go 87

9 Learning the meaning of "bukra" 98

10 From bad to worse 113

11 Nearly a goner 128

12 Return to Jeddah 136