THE CONTINENT BY MOTOR CAR, ACCORDING TO WALKERLEY PART 1
“THE CONTINENT,” OF COURSE, refers to that place isolated when the English Channel has a significant storm. And Rodney Walkerley was “Athos” of The Motor magazine and author of Motoring … Continue reading
OLD ENGLISH INNS: A BIBLOGRAPHIC AND INTERNET SAMPLING PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1 we identified old English inns that appeared in two old books, Tales of Old Inns, 1927, and English Inns Illustrated, 1951. What’s more, we found that … Continue reading
OLD ENGLISH INNS: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC AND INTERNET SAMPLING PART 1
THIS PROJECT GREW FROM my recent book sorting and its unearthing two books: Tales of Old Inns, 1927; and English Inns Illustrated, 1951. Gee, I wonder if there’s any overlap … Continue reading
TAKING A KITE-SHAPED TOUR
IT’S A RATHER IMPOSING title for a 1915 pocket guide: The Real United States & Canada Guide-Book. But its author William Harman Black had already published Real Round the World, … Continue reading
THE WHEEL IN JAPAN
THE WORD 車, KURUMA, vehicle, appears in the ancient historical chronicle Nihon shoki, 720 A.D. However, as noted in The Wheel: A Japanese History, “In China, whose influence on the … Continue reading
AROUND THE WORLD IN ONE-HUNDRED-THIRTY-SEVEN DAYS PART 2
THE RMS FRANCONIA CIRCLED the world in 1929. Yesterday’s Part 1 got us from New York to Monaco. Today we complete the circumnavigation, with even a couple of interesting variations, … Continue reading
AROUND THE WORLD IN ONE-HUNDRED-THIRTY-SEVEN DAYS PART 1
MOST TRAVEL BOOKS are written after the fact. But this one is an enticement, not memorabilia. The enticement is unabashed: “The Cunard Line and Thos. Cook & Son, pioneers extraordinaire … Continue reading
TOURING TUDOR ENGLAND—WITH PROFESSOR EVA TAYLOR AND GOOGLE MAPS PART 2
WHAT FUN EXPLORING the British Isles with maps dating from 1627! Well, yes, 20th-century Tudor authority Professor Eva G.R. Taylor helps too. And so do 21st-century Google Maps. Here in … Continue reading
TOURING TUDOR ENGLAND—WITH PROFESSOR EVA TAYLOR AND GOOGLE MAPS PART 1
LET’S OPEN WITH a timeline: Around 1540, King Henry VIII commanded Library Keeper and Antiquary John Leland to ride horseback throughout the realm to recover books and manuscripts scattered, stolen, … Continue reading
AN AMERICAN CHILD’S YEAR IN EUROPE
“WHEN I WAS a little girl of six,” author Louise A Wallace has Ruth write in 1914, “father and mother decided to take my brother and me, and spend one … Continue reading
