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Laddar... Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip (2003)av Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Short, passionate and patriotic retelling of the first car trip across America. The most interesting aspect were the details of early car technology, and the state of roads in America. It's probably difficult to underestimate the impact of motorized vehicles and this book gives a small glimpse into the world just on the brink of vertiginous change. A wonderful story about a man with a vision and the perseverance to achieve it. I thought that the writing left a little to be desired and I will probably watch the complimentary documentary at some point. Fortunately, the book is very short so despite the slow sections, it moves fast and is worth the read. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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HTML:The companion volume to the PBS documentary film about the first??and perhaps most astonishing??automobile trip across the United States. In 1903 there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the entire nation and most people had never seen a ??horseless buggy???but that did not stop Horatio Nelson Jackson, a thirty-one-year-old Vermont doctor, who impulsively bet fifty dollars that he could drive his 20-horsepower automobile from San Francisco to New York City. Here??in Jackson??s own words and photographs??is a glorious account of that months-long, problem-beset, thrilling-to-the-rattled-bones trip with his mechanic, Sewall Crocker, and a bulldog named Bud. Jackson??s previously unpublished letters to his wife, brimming with optimism against all odds, describe in vivid detail every detour, every flat tire, every adventure good and bad. And his nearly one hundred photographs show a country still settled mainly in small towns, where life moved no faster than the horse-drawn carriage and where the arrival of Jackson??s open-air (roofless and windowless) Winton would cause delirious excitement. Jackson was possessed of a deep thirst for adventure, and his remarkable story chronicles the very beginning of the restless road trips that soon became a way of life in America. Horatio??s Drive is the first chapter in our nation??s great romance with the road. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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150 mi of paved road in the entire nation
We share an astonishing cross country automobile drive. ( )