Fifty Years of Travel by Land, Water and Air by Hedges Butler. Frank,

Hardback book with blue covers bearing the author's bookplate. 421 pages, 14 chapters, illustrated throughout with B/W plates, 4 appendices and an index.

An extraordinary life story of a sporting gentleman whose profession as a wine merchant took him all over the world where he enjoyed ballooning, shooting, motoring, sledging behind Reindeers and flying with Wilbur Wright in his aeroplane for 4 minutes 31⅖ seconds on Thursday 8 October 1908.