Mr. Radley Drives to Vienna: A Rolls Royce Silver Ghost Crossing the Alps 1913 & 2013
by: John Kennedy

Hardcover. Munich GR, Hirmer , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 110 pages, 80 color illustrations. This unique book shows an album of photos taken in May & June 1913 when James Radley drove from London to Vienna via Paris, Mont Cenis Pass, Brescia, Riva del Garda, Dolomites, & Loibl Pass. His car was entered in the famous Osterreichische Alpenfahrt, a gruelling 2650 kilometre route with 19 mountain passes to drive across in seven days. On the journey out to Vienna, one of Radley's passengers was his friend Reginald Hope, an amateur photographer who recorded the journey. Remarkably, both the car and Hope's photo album survived, making it possible to recreate the journey with the same car and repeat the photographs in the identical locations exactly 100 years later in May & June 2013. John Kennedy has been taking photographs since he could first afford to buy film for the family box camera. The digital cameras used nowadays are rather more capable, but the challenge was still the same. Clean copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.