Adventures in geography
Gertrude Alice Kay
Hardcover
(Wise-Parslow, March 15, 1941)
This is not a Print-on-Demand or facsimile book. It is a hardcover published with a dust jacket and black ink artwork to orange cloth boards. It was published by The Wise-Parslow Company, New York and has a 1929 copyright by The Curtis Publishing Company and a a 1930 copyright by The Wise Book Company. The color illustrations are by Gertrude Alice Kay. This is a children's book about Bobby and his uncle, the Colonel and their adventures sailing around the world. From the Madeira Islands to the Corniche Drive, France, Jerusalem, Taj Mahal, Java, Japan and many other places before finally stopping in Havana, Cuba. Gertrude Kay (1884-1939), illustrator and landscape painter, grew up in Alliance, Ohio. She studied illustration at the Philadelphia Museum School of Design and with Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia. She produced covers and story illustrations for Ladies' Home Journal and other magazines from around 1908 through the 1920s. During this time she illustrated children's books as well. She began to travel extensively in 1921, first to China and Japan, and later to Ireland, England, and Italy. Accompanied on her travels by her school-teacher sister and mother, Kay studied Far Eastern and European cultures and filled sketchbooks with local color. Her popularity as an illustrator increased with her foreign travels as she demonstrated her ability to accurately portray family life and, in particular, children. In the late 1920s, she wrote and illustrated articles for the Ladies' Home Journal called "Adventures in Geography," mainly detailed accounts of journeys to distant lands.
