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Race Across the World recounts the story of the 1968 London to Sydney Marathon. More than a car race, more than a rally and more than the trials that had opened up outback Australia only a decade earlier, the marathon was the world’s most gruelling test of driver and vehicle. As a young journalist, author John Smailes was there in 1968, covering the

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