"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-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.
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