Dave Dashaway Around the World

The 1913 original has the breathless energy of an era when powered flight was still a novelty and the world felt genuinely unmapped. Dave and Hiram racing by aeroplane through Alaska and Siberia in search of the hidden city of Lhasa captures that sense of open-horizon adventure in the Stratemeyer tradition. What makes the Workman Classic Schoolbooks reissue stand out is the educational scaffolding — maps, footnotes, vocabulary questions, and comprehension exercises give homeschool families and classrooms real tools to work with. One honest note for educators: period pulp adventure from 1913 can carry dated attitudes toward non-Western peoples, so some guided discussion is worth building in. For adventure-hungry readers with an interest in early aviation history, this delivers.