HANS RUESCH RACING DRIVER

Lists with This Book. Being no longer able to race in Grand Prix, and with a worsening political climate, he returned to his interest in authorship. In his second year, he acquired a three-litre Maserati, with which he picked up further hill climb trophies and set a new world speed record for the standing-start kilometre, averaging It was at this time that Hans discovered the existence of vivisection after being shown a kitten by an acquaintance. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

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All Seaman had to do was cruise round to claim victory in a race that, while not representing the pinnacle of interwar competition, was nevertheless a precursor of the modern British grand prix.

It was in that Imperatrice Nuda was published, first in his native Italy, and then in the USA in as Slaughter of the Innocent, the first book to denounce vivisection not only on self-evident moral grounds - which incidentally Hans has achieved in this book probably better than any writer before or since - but also on medical and scientific grounds.

Hans Ruesch died at his home in Massagno, Switzerland, on August 27, at the age of From the collection of Dale LaFollette.

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In later life his attention turned to the campaign against vivisection, his own interest having been latent since the death in infancy of his brother Konrad, apparently after being given a drug which had been cleared after tests on animals. Ruesch was rcaing in Naples, Italy to Swiss parents and was a Swiss citizen. In this first race win for Scuderia Ferrari in England rueesch set thirteen new lap records.

Ruesch attended boarding school in Switzerland. Want to Read Currently Reading Read.

For safety reasons, the mountain section of the Montenero circuit at Livorno had been rusech and the course shortened from 20 km to 7. Hans Ruesch 17 May — 27 August was a Swiss racing driver, a novelist, and an internationally prominent activist against animal experiments and vivisection.

Hans Ruesch and the Alfa Tipo 8C35

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In later years he moved from his postwar home in Rome back to Switzerland, which he called "the international capital of vivisection". Although Seaman was about four seconds faster than Ruesch over 2. Retitled The Racer for its English publication init remains an evocative portrait of the continental circus of the interwar years and, suitably updated, formed the basis for Henry Hathaway's film The Racers, starring Kirk Douglas and Bella Darvi.

Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. For the season he purchased another Alfa Romeo, this time a powerful Tipo 8C, built for the Scuderia Ferrari and raced by the great Tazio Nuvolari.

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Some years later, Ruesch wrote a second book criticising vivisection, in English, which was released again, by Civitas in the United States, with the title "The Naked Empress, or the Great Medical Fraud". It was the end of a career which had given him 27 victories. Seaman cruised through the remaining laps to take racinv easy win. Ruesch "a born storyteller," and the novel is "a brilliant feat of poetic imagination. The discovery of what passes for much of 'modern day medical research' affected Hans greatly, and in ruesvh stated that he would never again write fiction whilst vivisection continued.

His first book on the subject was written and published in European countries with a title in each language that would translate into Tuesch as "The Naked Empress. While living in Rome, he announced that he would never again write fiction while the practice of vivisection continued.

Hans Ruesch

Being no longer able to race in Grand Prix, and with a worsening political climate, he returned to his interest in authorship. Years later Phil Hill would comment on that type Ferrari as a tricky car, using several examples of drivers he seen come to grief in France and England.

Therefore, such animal testing cannot reliably predict physiological racnig in humans. THIS is that rare book, a novel about sports which will be enjoyed by everyone - sports fans or not.

Martin rated it really liked it Dec 08, He married Maria Luisa de la Feld in Preview — The Racer by Hans Ruesch. When this same work was to be published in England, the title was changed, at the publisher's request, to "Slaughter of the Innocent", and that gans the title used when the book was subsequently issued by Civitas in the United States.

They separated in the early s and Maria Luisa died in He began racing in with MG at the Klausenrennen when he was