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Horatio's Drive : America's First Road Trip by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns (2003, Hardcover)
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Jackson’s previously unpublished letters to his wife, brimming with optimism against all odds, describe in vivid detail every detour, every flat tire, every adventure good and bad. With 146 illustrations and 1 map.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10037541536X
ISBN-139780375415364
eBay Product ID (ePID)4038896395
Product Key Features
Book TitleHoratio's Drive : America's First Road Trip
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / 20th Century, United States / 19th Century, Essays & Travelogues, United States / General
Publication Year2003
IllustratorYes
GenreTravel, History
AuthorDayton Duncan, Ken Burns
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight23.6 Oz
Item Length7.9 in
Item Width9.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-035736
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal917.304/911
SynopsisThe 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 Jackson's previously unpublished letters to his wife, brimming with optimism against all odds, describe in vivid detail every detour, every flat tire, every adventure good and bad.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. With 146 illustrations and 1 map
LC Classification NumberE168.D88 2003
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- 08 Jul, 2022
Enjoyed
Thoroughly enjoyed this book.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 16 Oct, 2024
Absolutely love and own the original doc...
Absolutely love and own the original documentary. Happy to have this companion book. Good condition.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 03 Apr, 2019
Great book
Very interesting and entertaining. Highly recomendVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 01 May, 2024
Should have been more about the man's interesting adventure..
Too much history and not enough of an adventurous story.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
