Wes Davis

American Journey: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs -- Wes Davis, Hardcover

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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 Panama-Pacific 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.



Author: Wes Davis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 06/06/2023
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.36h x 6.35w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781324000327

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2023 pg. 15
Publishers Weekly 04/24/2023
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2023

Product Tags:

20th Century, Biography & Autobiography, Business, Environmentalists & Naturalists, Hardcover, History, History - U.S., United States, W. W. Norton & Company, Wes Davis

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