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Excerpt from The Car That Went Abroad: Motoring Through the Golden Age The chapters that follow tell the story Of a small family who went gypsying through that golden age before the war when the tree-lined highways Of France, the cherry-blossom roads of the Black Forest, and the high trails Of Switzerland Offered welcome to the motor nomad. The impressions set down, while' the colors were fresh and warm with life, are Offered now to those who will give a thought to that time and perhaps go happily wandering through the new age whose dawn is here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Originally I began this story with a number of instructivechapters on shipping an automobile, and I followed withcertain others full of pertinent comment on ocean travel ina day when all the seas were as a great pleasure pond.They were very good chapters, and I hated to part withthem, but my publisher had quite positive views on thematter. He said those chapters were about as valuablenow as June leaves are in November, so I swept themaside in the same sad way that one disposes of theautumn drift and said I would start with Marseilles, where,after fourteen days of quiet sailing, we landed with our carone late August afternoon.Most travelers pass through Marseilles hastily--toohastily, it may be, for their profit. It has taken somethousands of years to build the "Pearl of theMediterranean," and to walk up and down the rueCannebière and drink coffee and fancy-colored liquids atlittle tables on the sidewalk, interesting and delightful asthat may be, is not to become acquainted with the"pearl"--not in any large sense.

"The Van Dwellers" is an incredible work by the 20th-century American author and biographer Albert Paine. The writer presents some interesting anecdotes about apartment housing in New York, giving valuable advice to those living in flats or thinking of it.