Jogging Round the World: Riders and Drivers, with Curious Steeds or Vehicles, in Strange Lands and at Home

A charming time capsule from 1905, when the world still moved by sledge, rickshaw, and foot. Edith Dunham serves as a curious and observant guide through a globe teeming with transportation variety: watch Eskimo children race across snow on dog-drawn sleds, glimpse Japanese women gliding through streets in rickshaws, encounter the enclosed litters called palanquins still carrying travelers through Korea and India. The book threads through Egyptian deserts, the jostling streets of Shanghai, and even winds up in the Spanish-colonial lanes of St. Augustine, Florida. What emerges is more than a catalog of vehicles it is a window onto a world on the eve of transformation, where these ancient ways of moving were about to be swept aside by the automobile. The illustrations and rich descriptions preserve practices that have largely vanished. For anyone fascinated by travel history, early ethnographic writing, or simply the strangeness of how our ancestors got from place to place.