by selling Edison phonographs. In Vagabonding Through Changing Germany (1920) he reported the turmoil in the aftermath of World War I. He even traveled through the Soviet Union in 1935, not without difficulty, and recorded his impressions in A Vagabond in Sovietland (1935). In 1938 Franck was 57 and began to travel by air, which was still a novelty at that time. He wrote Sky Roaming Above Two Continents in 1938 and The Lure of Alaska in 1939. When he was 61 years old, Franck obtained a commission as a Major in the Army Air Force (having served as a lieutenant in the cavalry in World War I) and served with the Ninth Air Force in France in the closing days of World War II, where the fighting was still going on. He reported vividly on the devastated conditions in eastern France. A nearby fortress had been bypassed by the Americans but was still manned by a German garrison. The Germans fired the same number of rounds from their cannon every night at the same time; the Germans, he was told, weren't aiming at anything, they were just following orders not to surrender. Winter Journey Through the Ninth was not accepted for publication at the time because publishers felt the market for war memoirs was glutted. It was privately published by the Franck family in 2000. Harry Franck married Rachel Latta (1892–1986), a Philadelphian working as a secretary to a correspondent and a volunteer in the US army hospital whom he met in Paris, in 1919. She eventually offered her own point of view on their subsequent travels in her 1939 book, I Married a Vagabond. The couple had five children, all born in different places, but made their home life in New Hope, Pennsylvania, where Harry Franck died of a stroke in 1962. Works A Vagabond Journey Around the World (1910) Four Months Afoot in Spain (1911) Zone Policeman 88 (1913) Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras (1916) Vagabonding Down the Andes (1917) Working my Way Around the World (1918—Lena Franck’s rewriting of the 1910 Vagabond Journey) Vagabonding Through Changing Germany (1920) Roaming Through the West Indies (1920) Under the palm-tree of Haiti (1920 pamphlet) Working North from Patagonia (1921) Wandering in Northern China (1923) Glimpses of Japan and Formosa (1924) Roving Through Southern China (1925) East of Siam (1926) All About Going Abroad (1927) The Japanese Empire: Geographical