THE LAST OVERLAND Alex Bescoby

Alex Bescoby is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, author and presenter with a love of history, travel and storytelling. His latest project, The Last Overland, involved driving 19,000km from Singapore to London, recreating one of history’s greatest road (and Land Rover) journeys – the historic First Overland expedition of 1955 – and was also broadcast as a Channel 4 documentary series.

Embarking on the ‘mother of all road trips’ for the defining journey of a lifetime, Bescoby’s book investigates how the world has changed since the First Overland, exploring themes of family ties, post-colonialism and the Land Rover religion.