Author: FRANCK, HARRY A.
Title: Vagabonding Through Changing Germany
Description: New York: Grosset & Dunlap, USA, 1920. Hardcover. Illustrated by Harry A. Franck. B&W Illustrations; 9 X 6 X 1 inches; 358 pages; Hard cover is illustrated boards. Brown spine with black marking. Covers are sunned, scuffed, rubbed, bumped and have minor fraying. No DJ. Illustrated with dozens of b/w photographs. Pages have some sunning. Pages are clean and tight. This copy is published by Harper & Brothers Publishers, NYC, 1920. Harry Alverson Franck, aka Harry A. Franck ( 1881 – 1962) was an American travel writer during the first half of the 20th century. His books intimately recorded life as it was lived in the societies he visited, at a time when many of them were changing rapidly under the influence of industrialization...His observations and much of his wording inevitably mirror the racist attitudes of his time...that Franck's personal attitudes towards everyone were undiscriminatingly humane, unpretentious, and courteous, if informal. His tone becomes subtly acrid in retailing examples of explicit racism or other forms of inter-group insensitivity. His unconscious remarks and use of words that nowadays are unacceptable in civilised speech are mainly of interest in revealing the differences between the conventions of the day and those of say, the late 20th century.. Very Good with no dust jacket .

Keywords: Travel Guides; Travelogues; Autobiography; Geography; Germany; European History; Memoirs; Social Life; Social History;