Sky roaming above two continents
Subtitle: an aerial cruise, with many landings in the countries and islands that circle the Caribbean
By: by Harry A. Franck; with ninety reproductions of photographs, most of them taken by the author
Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes company
Published: 1938
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
Subjects: Aeronautics; Flights; Travel
Description: Franck had many adventures, not all of them pleasant, but all described in his plain, somewhat sarcastic style, which was the antithesis of the highly romantic prose of other popular travel writers, such as Richard Halliburton. His books intimately recorded life as it was lived in the societies he visited, at a time when many of them were changing rapidly due to industrialization. They are an important historical source for their pen-portraits of figures of the time. Some may find it hard to believe the societies he describes existed less than a century ago. Many of his racist observations mirror the attitudes of his time. In 1938 Franck was 57 and began to travel by air, which was still a novelty at that time. He wrote Sky Roaming Above Two Continents in 1938. -- Wikipedia.
Notes: Map on lining-papers.

"First edition."
Table of contents: title: sleeping in the sky; title: Riding the Mexican clouds; title: Hovering over history; title: Flying on to Guatemala; title: Then comes El Salvador; title: Air-minded Honduras; title: Nicaragua is different; title: Let's have another look; title: Peaceful little Costa Rica; title: Back in the Canal Zone; title: And so to South America; title: Bogotá is nearer now; title: Debtless Venezuela; title: Columbus called it Trinidad; title: Islands, islands everywhere; title: The American Virgins; title: Puerto Rico; title: One island makes two countries; title: African Haiti; title: There's a lot of Cuba; title: Oh yes, and then there's Jamaica; title: Home over Havana.