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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Wes, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burroughs, John, 1837-1921--Travel--United States.

Burroughs, John.

Ford, Henry, 1863-1947--Travel--United States.

Ford, Henry.

Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931--Travel--United States.

Edison, Thomas A.

Burroughs, John, 1837-1921.

Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931.

Ford, Henry, 1863-1947.

United States--Biography.

United States.

Automobile travel--United States--History--20th century.

Automobile travel.

United States--Description and travel.

United States--History--1901-1953.

Travel.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2023]

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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 New England, the trip would prove to be the first of many excursions that would take Ford, Burroughs, and an enthusiastic Thomas Edison, across America. Between 1913 and 1918, their road trips became more ambitious -- and nudged their work in new directions. Davis recreates these landmark adventures, and shows how they helped the men reimagine the world they were creating. -- adapted from jacket

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781324000327

1324000325

OCLC:

1346294366