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Paperback American Journey: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs Book

ISBN: 132408636X

ISBN13: 9781324086369

American Journey: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs

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Releases Nov 26, 2024

Book Overview

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...

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Fascinating book - didn't want to put it down

Once I started reading this book I didn't want to stop. Absolutely fascinating reading about Ford, Edison, Firestone, Burroughs and so many others. I also learned so much I did not know about that time period in U.S. and world history. Highly recommend this book!

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