CUNNINGHAM - THE PASSION, THE CARS, THE LEGACY - LIVRE NEUF EN FRANCE

Auteur ____________________________________________________________ Richard Harman Date de parution ____________________________________________________________ Septembre 2013 Éditeur ____________________________________________________________ Dalton Watson Etat ____________________________________________________________ Neuf Format ____________________________________________________________ 21,5 x 30,5 cm Illustration ____________________________________________________________ Plus de 1500 photos couleur et NB Langue ____________________________________________________________ Anglais Nombre de pages ____________________________________________________________ 844 en 2 volumes Reliure ____________________________________________________________ Couvertures rigides sous jaquette + coffret rigide illustré + malette carton Cunningham  was a name which cropped-up in my  earliest memories of Le Mans  and as my interest in  motor racing developed, I found the longer distance events for S ports Cars  far more enticing that the increasingly shorter  Grand Prix races.  The Cunningham  was just a car and I knew nothing about the man behind their existence until my knowledge expanded through an increasingly extensive  library of motor racing books and magazines, of which I could never get enough.  The  Briggs Cunningham  story gradually emerged and fascinated me, as he was part of the emergence of  road racing in his country. The similar development of  road racing in Europe  had taken place years before my time and was already well-developed when y interest in the sport began.  The stories behind the great European races  enthralled me, even though they were history, but in  America the similar, often troubled beginnings of the  sport, happened during my life-time. My thirst for more knowledge of these events was insatiable, but hampered by a severe lack of readily available information. In retrospect, the  European press belittled American motor race   events  and considered them unimportant. Even the major motor races in the  USA, some of which pre-dated many great European events, were virtually ignored.