The Bear Next Door by Denis Knight
Good condition second hand copy for £15.00, sold by jsandersbooks on ReReadz.
- Author
- Denis Knight
- Price
- £15.00 plus tracked UK delivery from £2.99
- Condition
- Good
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780954832803
- Sold by
- jsandersbooks
About this copy
In 1973, at the height of the Cold War, Joanna and Denis Hilton and their little car, Yoddy, a bright yellow Toyota Celica, embarked on their greatest adventure -- a motoring holiday in the Soviet Union. They had booked passage on the Soviet cruise liner Alexandr Pushkin, which plied between Montreal and Leningrad during the summer months. With Yoddy winched up and dumped unceremoniously on the main deck, they finally cast off for Leningrad. The car caused a sensation everywhere she went. It wasn't her fault that they were arrested as soon as they arrived in Leningrad, neither was it her fault that they were turned back at the first road block on their six-hundred mile journey from Leningrad to Moscow. Let's just say that she stood out a mile among the drab Czechoslovakian Skodas and East German Trabbis that she met on the way. They were advised to keep a low profile as far as possible. Although foreigners were allowed to bring their own cars, it was (so we were told) courting disaster for anyone to bring themselves to the attention of 'those in authority'. Yoddy, bright yellow as she was, seemed to relish being stared at, so it was almost inevitable that the authorities went out o
First Edition, Signed by the Author, K Publications, 2005, The book is Near Fine and the dust jacket is Very Good+. Signed by the Author on pre-title page. The dust jacket has light edge wear and is not price clipped. The spine is sound and the book has no inscriptions. The pages are clean, with a manufacturing fault on pages 3 & 4 leaving a small tear on page edge with crimping.. Sent within 24 hours. Ref: BK1688.