Tom Sheppard on the Nobility of Wilderness, Crossing the Sahara, and Overlanding the Deserts.
The Overland Journal Podcast
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The Trans-Sahara Expedition 1975
"I'd heard about the Mauritania Empty Quarter and it sounded a bit of a challenge. A nice agile vehicle like the Range Rover would go there like a bunny rabbit, you know? But it would run out of fuel about a third of the way across," he says. The FBRD fighting vehicles research and development unit passed for production in 1975. "Just happened that we looked at the one Land Rover and I didn't believe my luck because they couldn't do it."
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