Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (502 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0739306359 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 549 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. Jackson’s previously unpublished letters to his wife, brimming with optimism against all odds, describe in vivid detail every detour, every flat tire, every adventure good and bad. Horatio’s Drive is the first chapter in our nation’s great romance with the road.With 146 illustrations and 1 mapFrom the Hardcover edition.. Here—in Jackson’s own words and photographs—is a glorious account of that months-long, problem-beset, thrilling-to-the-rattl
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. From Publishers Weekly In 1903, Horatio Nelson Jackson, a 31-year-old doctor from Vermont, made a bet that he could drive a car from San Francisco to New York. When the 20-horsepower open air vehicle finally cruises into Manhattan, a band plays as the narrators' voices burst with excitement and pride.Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. At the time, there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the U.S., many of them east of the Mississippi. Historian Duncan and documentary filmmaker Burns read the bulk of this audio adaptation, which is a companion to the forthcoming PBS film, with all the enthusiasm
He was director of the landmark PBS series The Civil War, Baseball, and Jazz and executive producer of The West. His other films include the Academy Award–nominated Brooklyn Bridge, The Statue of Liberty (also nominated for an Oscar), Lewis & Clark, and Mark Twain