INTRODUCTION / by Walter Jaffee, editor --PART 1: BY LAND:"What do you say to a ramble through London?" /by Catherine Cooke --Horsing around with Holmes /by Roger Donway --Illustrating horses for the many adventures of Sherlock Holmes /by Candace J....
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INTRODUCTION / by Walter Jaffee, editor --PART 1: BY LAND:"What do you say to a ramble through London?" /by Catherine Cooke --Horsing around with Holmes /by Roger Donway --Illustrating horses for the many adventures of Sherlock Holmes /by Candace J. Lewis --The trappings of Sherlock Holmes /by Ray Bennett --Joseph Hansom's wonderful cab /by Guy Marriott and Catherine Cooke --Horse cabs, carriages and commercial vehicles /by Guy Marriott --On a bicycle built for ... /by Richard Olken --The bicycle as a tool for the modern detective /by John Postovit --Sherlock Holmes on the rails /by John Baesch --Sherlock down the tubes /by John Durein --"Start her up, Watson," horsepower in the Canon /by Marcus Geisser --PART 2: BY SEA:At sea on ships and boats /by Walter Jaffee --"...Underhand, unfair and damned un-English ..." /by Philip and Jane Weller --PART 3: BY AIR:Zeppelins /by Mark Mower --Sherlock Holmes and aeroplanes /by Chuck Winge. This volume explains travel details related in the Canon. Three basic groups of travel, by land, by sea, and in the air, gives them a sense of evolution. The authors begin with walking, then take a look at horses, horses attached to conveyances, bicycles, locomotives and the internal combustion engine. A chapter on ships and boats is followed by a section on underwater travel. Finally the Zeppelin is replaced by early aircraft
