Robert Edison Fulton Jr — One Man Caravan

The Travel Book Club This is a Very Good + Copy of this book in publisher's grey and blue speckled hardcover boards with bright blue titole lettering to spine in a superb Dust-Jacket Graded Very Good + with only modest light rubbing and wear along the outer extremities of the dust-wrapper.Not price clipped.This copy has NO previous owner's names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.Illustrated with 132 photographs and 62 sketches and maps by the Author.The page edges are clean and bright with NO turned corners and there is NO foxing.Great copy for the collector of this highly elusive and sought after title.8vo 272pp [1939] AN EPIC JOURNEY: In 1932 Fulton Decided to decided to travel the world to see more great architecture and for almost 18 Months he rode a modified Douglas twin-cylinder motorcycle with a revolver hidden beneath the crankcase.He travelled some 25,000 miles and took 40,000 feet of film. He spent a night in a Turkish jail, dodged bandits in Iraq and was shot at by tribesmen in the Khyber Pass near Afghanistan and was entertained royally by Indian rajahs.He traversed through Greece,Turkey,Syria and over the desert to Iraq,through the Himalayas onto India and China and also Japan.A fascinating read by this Inventor. Very Good+ Very Good+ London 8vo