BY MOTOR TO THE GOLDEN GATE
Written by Emily Post, Jane Lancaster
Published by McFarland & Company, Inc.
in 2004
ISBN: 0786419407
BY MOTOR TO THE GOLDEN GATE
Written by Emily Post, Jane Lancaster.
Stock no. 1823860
1st thus.
2004.
Softcover.
Very good condition.
In 1915, journalist Emily Post set out from New York to investigate whether is was possible to drive comfortably across the country to San Francisco in an automobile. This is a reprint of Post's only travel book, originally published in 1916. This annotated edition includes a biographical sketch of Post. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. x and 267 pages including index. ISBN: 0786419407. Glued binding at half-title is drying out and thus joint is split at lower half - front joint fragile but binding still tight elsewhere.
Front cover
Contents
- I. It Can't Be Done - But Then, It Is Perfectly Simple
- II. Albany, First Stop
- III. A Breakdown
- IV. Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana
- V. Luggage and Other Luxuries
- VI. Did Anybody Say "Chicken"?
- VII. The City of Ambition
- VIII. A Few Chicagoans
- IX. Tins
- X. Mud!!
- XI. In Rochelle
- XII. The Weight of Public Opinion
- XIII. Muddier!
- XIV. One of the Fogged Impressions
- XV. A Few Ways of the West
- XVI. Halfway House
- XVII. Next Stop, North Platte!
- XVIII. The City of Recklessness
- XIX. A Glimpse of the West That Was
- XX. Our Little Sister of Yesterday
- XXI. Ignorance with a Capital I
- XXII. Some Indians and Mr. X
- XXIII. With Nowhere to Go but Out
- XXIV. Into the Desert
- XXV. Through the City Unpronounceable to an Exposition Beautiful
- XXVI. The Land of Gladness
- XXVII. The Mettle of a Hero
- XXVIII. San Francisco
- XXIX. The Fair
- XXX. "Unending Sameness" Was What They Said
- XXXI. To Those Who Think of Following in Our Tire Tracks
- XXXII. On the Subject of Clothes
- XXXIII. How Far Can You Go in Comfort?
- Appendix