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My Mercedes Is Not for Sale: From Amsterdam to Ouagadougou...
by Van Bergeijk, Jeroen | PB | VeryGood
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- Paperback
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- Product Group
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- ISBN
- 9780767928694
- Book Title
- My Mercedes Is Not for Sale : From Amsterdam to Ouagadougou... an Auto-Misadventure Across the Sahara
- Item Length
- 7.5in
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Travel, Transportation, Political Science
- Topic
- Africa / West, Globalization, Africa / North, Automotive / General, Essays & Travelogues
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 4.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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"Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?" --Janis Joplin A journalist's intrepid endeavor to sell his used car abroad results in a high-spirited and revealing look at West Africa. "Look, there's my car," I say, pointing at my Mercedes in the parking lot. "Where?" a fellow desert traveler asks. "There, that Mercedes," I say. He looks at me, questioning. "You want to drive that through the Sahara?" Jeroen van Bergeijk came up with what seemed like a great scheme for making a quick profit: buy a clunker of a car in his native Amsterdam and resell it in the Third World, where a market even for jalopies still thrives. His chariot of choice is a rusted-out 1988 Mercedes 190D with 220,000 kilometers on its odometer; his route will take him from Holland through Morocco, across the Sahara, and into some of the least trodden parts of Africa. My Mercedes Is Not for Sale is a rollicking tale of an innocent abroad. The author finds himself facing a driving challenge akin to the Dakar Rally but encounters obstacles never dreamed of by race-car drivers: active minefields, occasional banditry--mostly by the border guards--and a teenage, chain-smoking desert guide with a fondness for Tupac lyrics. Food and water are scarce, sandstorms are frequent, and all he has to patch up his many car breakdowns thousands of miles from civilization is a bar of soap, some duct tape, and a pair of women's nylons. Then there's the coup he survived. My Mercedes Is Not for Sale captures more than the adventure--it vividly portrays the impact of globalization on Africa through a surprise-filled journey into its thriving car culture, while asking the question: is the white man's burden really a used car?
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Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
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0767928695
ISBN-13
9780767928694
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Book Title
My Mercedes Is Not for Sale : From Amsterdam to Ouagadougou... an Auto-Misadventure Across the Sahara
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Africa / West, Globalization, Africa / North, Automotive / General, Essays & Travelogues
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Travel, Transportation, Political Science
Number of Pages
224 Pages
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Item Length
7.5in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
4.8 Oz
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