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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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