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:''For the American science fiction author, see Richard C. Meredith Richard Meredith is a British writer of adventure travel novels best known for ''Driven Together'',〔Driven Together (2008, MercuryBooks) ISBN 978-0-9541432-4-4〕 his account of the 2007 first car crossing of the new Asian Highway. Meredith and his co-driver Phil Colley drove from Tokyo (the Highway's farthest point East) to Istanbul (farthest West) in a journey facilitated by the United Nations, whose Commission in Bangkok had finally secured a pan-Asia agreement on the new road network in 2005 after nearly 50 years of negotiations. ==Silk Roads Revisited== Intended as a major benefit for international trade and towards alleviating poverty among Asia's poorer nations, the system is one of the most important developments in global transportation for centuries and resurrects many of the ancient Silk Road trading routes between Asia and Europe. Meredith, from Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, recruited Colley, a linguist and travel expert from south London, after being lent a V8 Vantage sports car for the trip by Aston Martin who wanted to put the car through a live durability test and to demonstrate its prowess to China's car-buyers. From Japan, they followed the Highway’s main AH1 and AH5 routes along the system’s ‘central corridor’ across China and many of the former Russian states in central Asia and eastern Europe. Including considerable customs clearance problems, ferry trips and minor crash repairs, the journey of approx. 10,000 miles from Tokyo to Istanbul and then onto London, took 49 days. It was independently logged〔(Eurowatch Maplog and tracking data )〕 and monitored throughout and ended with a reception and press conference hosted by Aston Martin's then-CEO Dr Ulrich Bez at the Hilton Hotel in Park Lane. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Meredith (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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