Cape to Cairo, The Record of a Historic Motor Journey
Boston: Little, Brown, 1927.
First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 250 pp, with a foreword by the Earl of Clarendon and illustrated with a map and 64 photogravures from photographs by T.A. Glover. Mild staining to rear board, else a fine copy in original blue cloth, lacking the dust jacket. The party of six people set off from Cape Town in two Crossley light trucks on in September 1924 and reached Cairo sixteen months later after covering 12,732 miles. The author was the only woman on the expedition, and acted as cook, doctor, seamstress and diarist for the group. A contemporary review praised the work for its highly readable style and also for being "more than a travel book. This is a diary in the best sense of being an intimate reflection of the writer's personality." Although Treatt occasionally wished for "a big bath and silky clothes to wear," more often "I like[d] my shorts and would not trade them for a skirt."
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