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The Daily Telegraph is known for commissioning `proper' pieces of travel writing by distinguished writers, as well as wonderfully maverick motoring pieces such as Get Your Kicks on the A66, about driving a Mini Cooper from Middlesbrough to Workington or The Run to the Sun, a chaotic odyssey of Vintage VW Camper Vans down the M4 to Newquay on an annual surfing pilgrimage. Featuring the very best of these travel and motoring articles, TheOpen Road is a fascinating anthology of beautifully written pieces chronicling life-changing moments in motoring, such as the day the first section of Britain's first motorway (the M1) opened and the futuristic wonder of driving along it; or what it was like the day the Berlin Wall came down and it was suddenly possible to drive your battered little Trabant out of East into West Germany. Among other stories, the first London-to-Brighton vintage car run, and the first relief convoy to reach an embattled community isolated by a distant war might be featured within this wonderful selection of prose. With contributors as diverse as Gavin Young to Jeremy Clarkson, Open Road has something for everyone who has ever dreamed of the freedom four wheels and a mix tape can afford.

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Nigel Richardson is an award-winning travel writer and journalist. The former deputy travel editor of The Daily Telegraph, he writes extensively on British and overseas travel and has a passion for unearthing quirky stories about the people and places he encounters. He co-wrote the TV-tie-in book Britain's Best Drives with the actor Richard Wilson (One Foot in the Grave), in which he undertook a series of car journeys around the UK for the very successful BBC series.

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