{"title":"Printed Photo Books","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"roadtrip-on-the-silkroad-book-printed-hardcover","title":"Roadtrip on the Silk Road — Hardcover Photo Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwelve countries. 14,000 kilometres. Thirty days. One 1,800-euro Volkswagen Touareg with the suspension of a shopping cart.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat could possibly go wrong? This is the photographic evidence that it mostly did — gloriously — all the way from Germany to the roof of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome people plan their road trips. We bought an 1,800-euro Touareg with no functioning suspension and pointed it vaguely east. Thirty days, twelve countries and 14,000 kilometres later, we had bounced across the Balkans, been headbutted by our own car roof somewhere in Turkey, queued six hours at a Tajik border, and driven onto the Pamir Highway — the “Roof of the World” — in a vehicle that would struggle to be the roof of a garden shed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlong the way, camels judged our life choices, goats staged roadblocks, and at 4,000 metres the altitude sickness got so enthusiastic that one of us started seeing tigers. (There were no tigers.) We were rescued, fed and grinned at by some of the warmest people on earth — all while proudly displaying German licence plates in places Google Maps refuses to acknowledge exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA travel photo book about doing something spectacularly ill-advised, surviving it, and immediately wanting to do it again — this time via Tibet, obviously.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA journey to the edge of the possible — and, against all mechanical odds, back again.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHardcover, portrait A4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEnglish edition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"David De Matteo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57653204353406,"sku":"SILK-HC-EN","price":39.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1010\/3590\/1310\/files\/SIlkroadBookENProduct.png?v=1783415160"},{"product_id":"roadtrip-on-the-silkroad-book-printed-hardcover-german","title":"Roadtrip auf der Seidenstraße — Hardcover-Fotobuch","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eZwölf Länder. 14.000 Kilometer. Dreißig Tage. Ein 1.800-Euro-VW-Touareg mit dem Fahrwerk eines Einkaufswagens.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWas soll da schon schiefgehen? Dies ist der fotografische Beweis, dass fast alles schiefging – auf herrliche Weise – von Deutschland bis ans Dach der Welt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eManche Menschen planen ihren Roadtrip. Wir kauften einen 1.800-Euro-Touareg ohne funktionierendes Fahrwerk und fuhren einfach grob Richtung Osten. Dreißig Tage, zwölf Länder und 14.000 Kilometer später waren wir über den Balkan gerumpelt, wurden irgendwo in der Türkei von unserer eigenen Heckklappe am Kopf getroffen, standen sechs Stunden an einer tadschikischen Grenze und rollten schließlich auf den Pamir Highway – das „Dach der Welt“ – mit einem Fahrzeug, das kaum als Dach eines Gartenhäuschens getaugt hätte.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnterwegs beurteilten Kamele unsere Lebensentscheidungen, Ziegen errichteten Straßensperren, und auf 4.000 Metern wurde die Höhenkrankheit so übermütig, dass einer von uns Tiger sah. (Es gab keine Tiger.) Wir wurden von einigen der herzlichsten Menschen der Erde gerettet, verköstigt und angelächelt – und das alles mit stolz gezeigten deutschen Kennzeichen an Orten, deren Existenz Google Maps schlicht leugnet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEin Reisefotobuch darüber, etwas spektakulär Unvernünftiges zu tun, es zu überleben und es sofort wieder tun zu wollen – das nächste Mal natürlich über Tibet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEine Reise an den Rand des Möglichen – und, allen mechanischen Widrigkeiten zum Trotz, wieder zurück.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHardcover, Hochformat A4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeutsche Ausgabe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"David De Matteo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57653243117950,"sku":"SILK-HC-DE","price":39.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1010\/3590\/1310\/files\/SIlkroadBookENProduct.png?v=1783415160"},{"product_id":"roadtrip-on-the-silkroad-book-printed-hardcover-turkish","title":"İpek Yolu Yolculuğu — Ciltli Fotoğraf Kitabı","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn iki ülke. 14.000 kilometre. 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