Christian Fink-Jensen

Aloha Wanderwell - The Border-Smashing, Record-Setting Life of the World's Youngest Explorer

Discover the incredible life of Aloha Wanderwell, the youngest explorer and first woman to drive around the world.

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The story of the Guinness World Record Holder of the First Woman to Drive Around the World In 1922, a 16-year-old Canadian girl, fed up with life in a French convent school, answered an ad for a travelling secretary. Tall, blonde, and swaggering with confidence, she might have passed for twenty. She also knew what she wanted: to become the first female to drive around the world. Her name was Aloha Wanderwell. By the age of 25, she had become a pilot, a film star, an ambassador for world peace, and the centrepiece of one of the biggest unsolved murder mysteries in California history. Her story defied belief, but it was true. Every bit of it. Except for her name. The American Aloha Wanderwell was raised in Canada as Idris Hall. Drawing upon Aloha's diaries and travel logs, as well as films, photographs, newspaper accounts, and previously classified government documents, Aloha Wanderwell reveals the astonishing story of one of the greatest - and most outrageous - explorers of the 1920s.

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Release date

30.05.2023

Imprint

Goose Lane Editions

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Genres

Biography & Memoir, Adventure

Moods

excited, curious

Keywords

explorer, world record, unsolved murder, pilot, film star