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

Name: American Journey – On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John
Brand: WW Norton & Co

WW Norton & Co

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\u2019s Model Ts to explore the Transcendentalist\u2019s 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.\nTheir road trips\u2014increasingly ambitious in scope\u2014transported members of the group to the 1915 Panama\u2013Pacific 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\n\nAmerican Journey \u2013 On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs\nOn the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs\nFree UK delivery on ;