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Old 10-27-2019, 01:05 PM   #7
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Default Re: The first women to circumnavigate the world in a car

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Achievements

First woman to drive around the globe. (Wikipedia)
Drove 43 countries in a Ford Model-T at age 16.
Earliest films of the Bororo people of Brazil.
Traveled 380,000 miles to 80 countries in the 1920s.
First across India and Cape Town to the Nile.
First woman to fly Brazil’s Mato Grosso.
Filmed the first flight around the world.
Member of the French Foreign Legion.
Films at The Smithsonian & The Library of Congress.
Women’s International Association of Aviators.
Started Work Around the World Educational Club.

Yup, quite a woman! The website has some pix of her later Fords, including a somewhat rare Model A Deluxe Phaeton.
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