Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

Duncan, Dayton; Burns, Ken

ISBN 10: 037541536X / ISBN 13: 9780375415364

Published by Alfred A.Knopf, 2003

About this Item

Larger, sturdy book, dark blue covers with very bright ornate gilt border front and spine, a map of the route across the United States inside covers and adjacent end papers, 172 pages profusely illustrated. DJ glossy purple background, a photograph of antique car and driver in desert at center front, the driver pushing the car at center back, gilt lettering. DJ and book, both As New.

Seller Inventory # 063047

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
• Publisher: Alfred A.Knopf
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 037541536X
• ISBN 13: 9780375415364
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New

About this title

Synopsis

The companion volume to the PBS film chronicles the nation's first road trip by Horatio Jackson, a thirty-one-year-old Vermont doctor who drove his car from San Francisco to New York on mainly unpaved roads in 1903. 50,000 first printing.

About the Author

Dayton Duncan, writer and producer of Horatio’s Drive, is the author of seven other books about American history, including Out West: A Journey Through Lewis and Clark’s America, in which he retraced the route of the expedition. He has been involved with Ken Burns’s documentaries for more than a decade. He and Burns are now collaborating on a major documentary series about our national parks. He lives in Walpole, New Hampshire.

Ken Burns, director and producer of Horatio’s Drive, has been making award-winning documentary films for more than twenty years. He was director of the landmark PBS series The Civil War, Baseball, and Jazz and executive producer of The West. His other films include the Academy Award–nominated Brooklyn Bridge, The Statue of Liberty (also nominated for an Oscar), Lewis & Clark, and Mark Twain. His next documentary will be a biography of the prizefighter Jack Johnson. He lives in Walpole, New Hampshire.