The Ways We Travel (Carpenters' Journey Club Travels)

New York / Cincinnati / Chicago / Boston / Atlanta: American Book Company, 1929. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Boards faintly soiled, edges lightly foxed, crayon scribbles on endpapers (none in text), ink stamp of Theodore Roosevelt School on title page. 1929 Hard Cover. xiii, [1], 298 pp. Colorized photographic frontispiece, black-and-white photographs and illustrations throughout text. An account of various modes of transportation designed for educational use with younger readers, including the expected discussion of planes, trains, boats, and automobiles, but also including more unconventional methods such as wheelbarrows, rickshaws (jinrikisha), mountainclimbing, ice skating, hot air balloons, etc. Also includes chapters on telegrams, telephone, and radio.