A Woman's World-Tour in a Motor

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1911. First Edition. An account of the automotive adventures of pioneering businesswoman Harriet White Fisher, the first woman to travel around the world by automobile.

Fisher was married to Clark Fisher, the owner of New Jersey based anvil and vise factory Eagle Steel Works, and inherited the factory after his death in 1902, becoming one of the first female industrialists in the US. She embarked on her world tour in July of 1909, traveling with her 40-horsepower automobile by steamer to England, accompanied by her chauffeur, her maid, her butler, and her Boston Bull Terrier named Honk-Honk. The voyage took 13 months, and took Fisher and her companions across western Europe, parts of Africa, China, India, and Japan, eventually returning to her home in Trenton, New Jersey in August of 1910.

About Very Good plus in moderately worn, cloth-covered boards. Small bump on the top right corner of the front board.

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