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Author Davis, Wes, author.

Title American journey : on the road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs / Wes Davis.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023].
©2023
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Description 384 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The spark -- Compensation -- Trial runs -- The palace of industry and the garden of earthly treasures -- Separate ways -- Sunburned and full of vim -- At sea -- A great slice of our geography.
Summary "The epic road trips— and surprising friendship— of John Burroughs, nineteenth-century naturalist, and Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, inventors of the modern age. In 1913, an unlikely friendship blossomed between Henry Ford and famed naturalist John Burroughs. When their mutual interest in Ralph Waldo Emerson led them to set out in one of Ford's Model Ts to explore the Transcendentalist's New England, the trip would prove to be the first of many excursions that would take Ford and Burroughs, together with an enthusiastic Thomas Edison, across America. Their road trips— increasingly ambitious in scope— transported members of the group to the 1915 PanamaPacific International Exposition in San Francisco, the Adirondacks of New York, and the Green Mountains of Vermont, finally paving the way for a grand 1918 expedition through southern Appalachia. In many ways, their timing could not have been worse. With war raging in Europe and an influenza pandemic that had already claimed thousands of lives abroad beginning to plague the United States, it was an inopportune moment for travel. Nevertheless, each of the men who embarked on the 1918 journey would subsequently point to it as the most memorable vacation of their lives. These travels profoundly influenced the way Ford, Edison, and Burroughs viewed the world, nudging their work in new directions through a transformative decade in American history. In American Journey, Wes Davis re-creates these landmark adventures, through which one of the great naturalists of the nineteenth century helped the men who invented the modern age reconnect with the natural world— and reimagine the world they were creating." -- Description provided by publisher.
Subject United States -- Biography.
Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 -- Travel -- United States.
Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 -- Travel -- United States.
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 -- Travel -- United States.
Automobile travel -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Description and travel.
United States -- History -- 1901-1953.
Genre Biographies.
ISBN 9781324000327 (hardcover)
1324000325 (hardcover)
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