South By Thunderbird

Random House, 1937-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Hardcover, Sixth Printing 1937 Random House 388 pages. Very Good , in a Fair DJ. Minor shelf/edge wear to silver cloth boards with blue titles and accents - corners sharp. Major shelf/edge wear and chipping to scarce multi-color (blue, light green and silver) foil DJ - now in mylar. Fabulous travel book covering the entire continent of South America — Author flew to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and the Guianas, with 27 b/w photographs and map end papers. Hudson Strode (October 31, 1892 – September 22, 1976) was an author and professor of creative writing at the University of Alabama. He taught at the University of Alabama from 1916 until his retirement in 1963. His creative writing classes gained international fame for the literary successes achieved by his students. Strode’s students published over 55 novels and 101 short stories. One of Strode's students was the author Borden Deal. Strode wrote several books on Scandinavian and Caribbean countries before turning to biography. His best known accomplishment is his three-volume biography of Jefferson Davis. Rear panel of Dj has highly rated reviews from Hugh Walpole, Dorothy Canfield, The Chicago Tribune, New York Times, The London Observer and more. A wonderful trip back in time to see how the upper class travelled during the Depression and pre-war years and their impressions of what they saw. LOC SSS-3