Speed King: Burt Munro, the World's Fastest Indian
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Retail Price: | $19.99 |
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Published: August 2016
Published By: Picture Puffin
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Product Description
A crowd of people stand on a flat white plain. In the distance, a snarling, roaring dark speck is hurtling towards them. It's a motorbike. The rider is inside the shell, lying almost flat. 'Go, Burt!'
The red bike blurs past.
Fingers click stop-watches.
The moment young Burt Munro saw a motorbike chugging down a quiet Invercargill street, he was hooked. More than fifty years later, he and his ancient Indian motorcycle would amaze the racing world by setting a world land-speed record - one that remains unbroken to this day.
Burt didn't have much money. He wasn't young. But he was determined. And, in the end, he became a Kiwi legend.
A wonderful true story about a very unlikely New Zealand champion, by the award-winning author and illustrator of First to the Top.