Rupert Guinness Rupert Guinness i(A109254 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon Overlander : One Man's Epic Race to Cross Australia Rupert Guinness , Cammeray : Simon and Schuster Australia , 2018 14561262 2018 single work autobiography

'Rupert Guinness set out on the trip of a lifetime: to race across Australia in the inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race.

'This would be no ordinary bike race. Unlike the Tour de France, which Guinness made his name reporting on for decades, competitors would ride completely unassisted from Fremantle in Western Australia to the Opera House in Sydney on the other side of the country – a gruelling distance of over 5,000 kilometres that would not only test riders’ physical endurance but their psychological resilience as well. Dubbed ‘The Hunger Games on Wheels’, there would be no help, just riders and their bikes crossing one of the most beautiful – and most inhospitable – places on earth...'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 1 y separately published work icon The Flying Grocer Rupert Guinness , North Sydney : Random House Australia , 2007 Z1422479 2007 single work biography Towards the end of World War II, Australian Lancaster Bomber pilots, based in Britain, dropped food parcels to the starving citizens of Holland whose country was laid bare by the retreating German forces.
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