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Vezi oferta la elefant.roContributor(s): Author: Richard Diamond Productions 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, "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
