Friendly Road, New Adventures in Contentment
Author: first_name: Ray Stannard
last_name: Baker
Language: English
Year: 1913

My grandmother Gertrude received a copy of The Friendly Road for Christmas in 1919. It must have been a special gift book--green leather binding, gold embossing, a sheet of tissue paper protecting the color plate facing the title page--this a painting of a solitary man enjoying a swim in a sun dappled stream with the caption "Surely it is good to be alive at a time like this."<br><br>

Written in first person, pseudo autobiographical style, the “author” of The Friendly Road, David Grayson, is