Books: Have Car, Will Travel

ADVENTURER'S ROAD (235 pp.)—

T. R. Nicholson—Rinehart ($4.50).

WILL ANYONE AGREE TO GO FROM PEKING TO PARIS THIS SUMMER BY MOTORCAR?

Headline in Le Matin,

Paris, Jan. 31, 1907

As a circulation booster, Le Matin's question was an unqualified success. Press and public not only buzzed over the antic notion of an auto trip across Asia and Europe, but within six months five teams were in China, ready to follow the caravan track north and west into the Gobi Desert. There was no need for road maps; there were no roads. There was no sure fuel supply; what was available had been hopefully...

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