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Search - Aloha Wanderwell " Call to Adventure": True Tales of the Wanderwell Expedtion, First Women to Circle the World in an Automobile

Aloha Wanderwell Call to Adventure True Tales of the Wanderwell Expedtion First Women to Circle the World in an Automobile
Author: Aloha Wanderwell Baker

"The First Woman To Travel Around The World By Automobile!" "The World's Most Widely Traveled Girl starting at 16 Years Old !" In her own words, the remarkable ALOHA WANDERWELL BAKER tells the true story of her amazing 7 year journey around the world in a Model T Ford with the Wanderwell Expedition in the 1920s. Containing Aloha's 1939 memoir, ?... more »Call To Adventure,? and with exclusive newly-commissioned essays, photos and supplemental materials from the author's estate, "Aloha Wanderwell: Call To Adventure" takes the reader along on her epic trek through Europe, the Middle East, India, Japan, China, the Soviet Union, the United States, Cuba, and Africa ? a thrilling adventure made all the more astounding by the fact that Aloha herself was only 16 years old when she set out to see the world by car. ?Brains, Beauty & Breeches ? World Tour Offer For Lucky Young Woman?. Wanted to join an expedition?Asia, Africa?.? In 1922, Idris Galcia Hall was a 16 year old schoolgirl when she answered an ad placed in the Paris Herald by self-styled adventurer Walter Wanderwell. who was just starting out to break the world?s long distance automobile record in an expedition jumpstarted by Henry Ford?s donation of a pair of Model Ts. She joined the expedition as Wanderwell's secretary, and, christened with a new stage name, Aloha Wanderwell, she soon found herself functioning as translator, driver, seamstress, all-around good will ambassador, and even actress, as she soon became the focal point for the filmed record of the trip. Along the way, she and Wanderwell fell in love and were married when the expedition reached California in 1925. "Aloha Wanderwell: Call To Adventure" captures in vivid detail Aloha?s own impressions of the long-forgotten Wanderwell Expedition?sweeping through Italy just as Mussolini and the Fascisti were consolidating their power? braving food riots and hostile mobs in Germany, a country then reeling from the harsh reparations demanded by the victorious allies of World War I?camping at the foot of the Great Sphinx in Egypt?s Valley of the Kings? driving into Palestine, where the Jews were attempting to build a new nation? across the arid lands of India, towing the Model Ts across rivers by water buffalo. Aloha traversed the highlands of Portuguese East Africa, and nearly died of thirst in the Sudanese desert?.disguised herself as a man and prayed in Mecca? hunted elephants in Indo-China, became a confidante of Chinese bandits, and was granted the title of ?Honorary Colonel? in the Red Army of Siberia? and hob-nobbed with Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks during a visit to Hollywood. ?Aloha Wanderwell: Call To Adventure? is a remarkable tale told by a remarkable woman.

ISBN-13: 9781484118801
ISBN-10: 1484118804
Publication Date: 5/7/2013
Pages: 288
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Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Book Type: Paperback
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