Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
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Dewey Decimal Number: 917.304911
EAN: 9780375415364
ISBN: 037541536X
Label: Knopf
Manufacturer: Knopf
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: July 08, 2003
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date: July 08, 2003
Sales Rank: 226796
Studio: Knopf
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Product Description:
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 Jackson’s previously unpublished letters to his wife, brimming with optimism against all odds, describe in vivid detail every detour, every flat tire, every adventure good and bad.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.
With 146 illustrations and 1 map
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- Drive, she said!Companion volume to the PBS documentary of the same title. And it reads like it. Too slim to stand ... Read More
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- A short book about a long journeyI enjoy reading almost anything about antique autos,the early days of the US auto industry, old car trips ... Read More
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- Before the SUV...Amazing document about a time in American history when there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the entire ... Read More
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- not the narrative from the PBS showI had it in my head that this was going to be the audio from the wonderful PBS show but I was mistaken. It is ... Read More
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- Brief but funThis is a brief account of the first cross country automobile trip, sprinkled with photographs taken by the "automobilist" ... Read More
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