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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Fink-Jensen, Christian, 1969-     Subjects     Wanderwell, Aloha, 1906-1996.     Women travelers -- Biography.     Women travelers -- Canada -- Biography.     Women explorers -- Biography.     Women explorers -- Canada -- Biography.     Women -- Canada -- Biography.     Voyages around the world -- Biography.     Automobile travel.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Fink-Jensen, Christian, 1969-       by title:      Aloha Wanderwell : t...       by call number:      910.92 W245f     Search the Web     Fink-Jensen, Christian, 1969-     Wanderwell, Aloha, 1906-1996.     Women travelers -- Biography.     Women travelers -- Canada -- Biography.     Women explorers -- Biography.     Women explorers -- Canada -- Biography.     Women -- Canada -- Biography.     Voyages around the world -- Biography.     Automobile travel.       MARC Display

Aloha Wanderwell : the border-smashing, record-setting life of the world's youngest explorer / Christian Fink-Jensen & Randolph Eustace-Walden. by Fink-Jensen, Christian, 1969- Goose Lane Editions, 2016. Call #: 910.92 W245f Subjects Wanderwell, Aloha, 1906-1996.   Women travelers -- Biography.   Women travelers -- Canada -- Biography.   Women explorers -- Biography.   Women explorers -- Canada -- Biography.   Women -- Canada -- Biography.   Voyages around the world -- Biography.   Automobile travel. ISBN:  9780864928955 (pbk.) Description:  421 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-404) and index. Summary:  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, shaking hands with Mussolini, 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. Aloha Wanderwell (born Idris Welsh) was born in 1906 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Genre:  Biographies. Other authors:  Eustace-Walden, Randolph. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Tantallon Public Library Adult Biography 910.92 W245f Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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