Two journal tales of travel: one taking you by foot on the whole Appalachian Trail plus The Long Trail in Vermont; then a venture of pedaling across mid America coast to coast on a two wheeler.

The book describes through the newspaper reporting of the events of all of the fourteen Daily Mail flying prize winners from 1907-1919: Roe, Farman, Brabazon, Bl?riot, Paulhan, de Lessep, Paulhan a second time, Moisant, Beaumont, Sopwith, Hamel, Brock, Alcock and Brown; and Gatherwood. Most of these names remain in history as great air pioneers.
The newspaper reporting at that time tells you why:
In Europe in 1906, following the Wright brothers' success in the first flight by man in a powered aircraft in 1903, progress in manned flight was slowly coming to fruition in France and Germany but not in Britain. In November, 1906, only a short time after Santos-Dumont performed the first successful flight in Europe, Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail, was prompted to announce the offer of a prize of ?10,000 for a flight from London to Manchester.
Through this offer, Lord Northcliffe took Britain into the international world of flying. The prize offer encouraged the pioneers, and not surprisingly, the prize was won within four years of the offer.
Even though, the Wright brothers were capable of crossing the English Channel first, they did not for various reasons. In 1909, Louis Bl?riot garnered the Daily Mail prize for this feat plus acquiring everlasting world wide fame.
In April, 1913, the Daily Mail again startled the world with the offer of ?10,000 for the first non-stop cross-Atlantic flight. World War I interrupted any attempts for the prize. Post the war, a number of groups flocked to Newfoundland to try and succeed for the unprecedented flight. Alcock and Brown in their Vickers Vimy aircraft on June 14-15, 1919 performed the first non-stoptrans-Atlantic flight going from Newfoundland to Ireland.
Experience the ventures of early these aviation pioneers just as readers did at the time with "splash" as the "Chief" (Lord Northcliffe) would say.

Two journal tales of travel: one taking you by foot on the whole Appalachian Trail plus The Long Trail in Vermont; then a venture of pedaling across mid America coast to coast on a two wheeler.

Subsequent to hiking the whole Appalachian Trail, which took 47 hikes over many years, and having bicycled alone across the USA in four separate trips, Paul Wittreich decided that he wanted to do a long distance adventure in one shot.

The result was a two-month bicycle ride across Canada from the Pacific at Vancouver Island to Nova Scotia and the Atlantic. In the next summer, he topped it off by going to the end of Trans-Canada Highway, Mile 0, in St. John's, Newfoundland. The adventure took him through all ten of Canada's provinces, including Prince Edward Island.

In addition to keeping a continuous chronicle, he took panoramic photos with his WideluxTM camera. The resulting pictures visually encompass scenes of 140 degrees to portray the sweeping breadth of Canada.