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A “fascinating slice of rarely considered American history” (Booklist)—the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison—whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life. In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist John Burroughs visited Thomas Edison in Florida and toured the Everglades. The following year Ford, Edison, and tire maker Harvey Firestone joined together on a summer camping trip and decided to call themselves the Vagabonds. They would continue their summer road trips until 1925, when they announced that their fame made it too difficult for them to carry on. Although the Vagabonds traveled with an entourage of chefs, butlers, and others, this elite fraternity also had a serious purpose: to examine the conditions of America’s roadways and improve the practicality of automobile travel. Cars were unreliable and the roads were even worse. But newspaper coverage of these trips was extensive, and as cars and roads improved, the summer trip by a
British historian Oskar Jensen combs through hundreds of late Georgian and Victorian primary and secondary accounts to document the stories of London's poor through their own voices. What emerges is a buzzing world of the working classes, diverse in gender, ethnicity, ability, origin, and occupation
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Dana and Ginger Lamb had no motive but adventure when they left California in the autumn of 1933 and headed south in a 16-foot vessel they had built themselves. How else would could you explain setting off on a 16,000 mile voyage? However the romantic young explorers did possess the Vagabunda, a fra
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Guinn, Jeff: - Jeff Guinn is the bestselling author of numerous books, including Go Down Together , The Last Gunfight , Manson , The Road to Jonestown , War on the Border , and Waco. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas, and is a member of the Texas Literary Hall of Fame.
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Jingfang, Hao: - Jingfang Hao is a Chinese science fiction writer. She won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for Folding Beijing, translated by Ken Liu, at the 2016 Hugo Awards, marking the first Hugo awarded to a Chinese woman. Hao works as a macroeconomics researcher at China Development Research
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