Aloha Wanderwell: The Border-smashing, Record-setting Life of the World's Youngest Explorer - Couverture souple

Fink-Jensen, Christian; Eustace-Walden, Randolph

 
9780864928955: Aloha Wanderwell: The Border-smashing, Record-setting Life of the World's Youngest Explorer
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ISBN 10 : 0864928955 ISBN 13 : 9780864928955
Editeur : Goose Lane Editions, 2016

Synopsis

In 1922, a 15-year-old girl, fed up with life in a French convent school, answered an ad for a travelling secretary. Tall, blonde, and swaggering with confidence, she might have passed for twenty. She also knew what she wanted: to become the first female to drive around the world. Her name was Aloha Wanderwell.

Aloha's mission was foolhardy in the extreme. Drivable roads were scarce and cars were alien to much of the world. The Wanderwell Expedition created a specially modified Model T Ford for the journey that featured gun scabbards and a sloped back that could fold out to become a darkroom. All that remained was for Aloha to learn how to drive.

Aloha became known around the globe. She was photographed in front of the Eiffel Tower, parked on the back of the Sphinx, firing mortars in China, and smiling at a tickertape parade in Detroit. By the age of 25, she had become a pilot, a film star, an ambassador for world peace, and the centrepiece of one of the biggest unsolved murder mysteries in California history. Her story defied belief, but it was true. Every bit of it. Except for her name. The American Aloha Wanderwell was, in reality, the Canadian Idris Hall.

Drawing upon Aloha's diaries and travel logs, as well as films, photographs, newspaper accounts, and previously classified government documents, Aloha Wanderwell reveals the astonishing story of one of the greatest — and most outrageous — explorers of the 1920s.

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À propos des auteurs

Christian Fink-Jensen's writing has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including the Toronto Star, Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Quarterly, Rampike, Vancouver Sun, and Ottawa Citizen.

Randolph Eustace-Walden has worked as a writer, editor, researcher, television producer, and director. He has twice been nominated for Emmy and Gemini awards and has won several Leo awards.

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Éditeur
Goose Lane Editions
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0864928955
ISBN 13 
9780864928955
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
424
Coordonnées du fabricant
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