جورج هارت اجتاز الصحراء الكبرى بالسيارة وقطع أفريقية من
شمالها إلى جنوبها ثم اجتياز آسيا بالسيارة
حتي أفغانستان - غرض الرحلة بالصحراء إقامة خط سكة حديد بين المستعمرات الفرنسية في
شمال أفريقيا ومدغشقر التي كانت تعتبر أرض فرنسية معزولة في المحيط الهندي
Trans Asiatic Harrdt Cintrogen
Expedition sponsored by National Geographic and undertaken by Harrdt with his
French team. During early 1920s Harrdt had traversed the Sahara in his half track vehicles designed by Andre Citrogen . On April 4th 1931 with seven specially designed cintrogen half
tracks Harrdt set off from Beirut in Lebanon in an attempt to reach yellow sea
by roughly following the route of Marco Polo’s journey seven centuries earlier.
The expedition was supposed to cross the Asia from
Beirut to Beijing,avoiding the Pamirs through Soviet Turkish republics in
one set of half tracks,but Soviet
refusal to permit the expedition through their territory the expedition had to
be divided ; one set of seven half tracks assembled on east coast of China and
moved westwards and another set of seven half tracks moved from Mediterranean
through Lebanon,Syria, Iraq,Iran, Afghanistan to Srinagar in India covering a
distance of 5,580 kms from Beirut to
Srinagar in 81 days between April 4th April to 31st June 1931
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