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 enlarge | Authors: Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns
Publisher: Knopf
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 168668
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 037541536X
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.304911
EAN: 9780375415364
ASIN: 037541536X
Publication Date: July 8, 2003
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Condition: withdrawn library book with library markings in good condition
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 Unabridged Audio CD May 30, 2005
Having recently read the "Lincoln Highway", I was interested in learning more about the earliest travel across the country by automobile. I opted for the audio CD so we could listen to the story while in the car.
Often, my mind wanders when listening to audio books. However, that wasn't true for this audio book. The story of this historic trip, as well as the narration by various individuals, has retained both my interest and attention.
I would recommend that anyone not familiar with the means of travel at that time and road conditions, become familiar with it before beginning with the audio CD... Next, I plan on watching the video DVD of Horatio's Drive.
 Intersting book October 21, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was a good nonfiction book that read like a journal or a novel. It was about the first transcontinental automobile drive in America: all the obstacles that the drivers had to overcome, what the conditions were like, and how people reacted to seeing this car. Horatio Jackson, accompanied by Sewall Crocker, left San Francisco in 1903 in an attempt to be the first man to ever traverse the U.S. from coast to coast in an automobile (and to win a bet). Jackson funded the trip by himself. They went over the Rocky Mountains, across the plains of the Midwest and all the way to New York City in 63 days. This book was an easy read, but I found it interesting and even learned something. I liked all the excerpts from Horatio Jackson's letters and the excerpts from the newspapers of the towns that he drove through. It also had great pictures and lots of them.
Surprisingly good! December 21, 2003
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
In 1903, a dinner guest at the prestigious University Club in San Francisco, Vermont Dr. Horatio Jackson, took up a bet that said that he would not be able to drive one of those newfangled automobiles to New York City in less than three months. Now, this was in the days before expressways or highways or even descent roads! But, Horatio Jackson was a man of limitless energy (and deep pockets), so in four days he got himself a car (a Winton touring car), supplies and an assistant-driver, and he was off! Facing bad road, no roads, no maps, sharp rocks, deep rivers, rapacious store owners and bad directions, Jackson and compatriots (he picked up a bulldog in Idaho) overcame all obstacles and won the bet!This is a surprisingly good book! I mean, you may not believe it, but the authors succeed in taking this subject and making a positively gripping book. I absolutely loved the many pictures of early automobiles, and the story carried me along, watching each of Horatio's adventures unfold. This is a great book, one that I highly recommend.
Authors narrate this own companion to the PBS documentary October 14, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The authors narrate this own companion to the PBS documentary about the first 1903 automobile trip across the US. There were only 150 miles of paved roads in those days - but Horatio Jackson bet fifty dollars that he could drive his 20-horsepower auto from San Francisco to New York City - and his endeavor comes to life in this vivid audio memoir.
 Good, but not Great. September 23, 2003
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
It is a fascinating story, no doubt about that. I expected a more detailed, in-depth treatment of the story though.This book is more like a collection bits and pieces of the story. I would rank it around the sixth grade level.
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