Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip - Hardcover

Duncan, Dayton; Burns, Ken

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 037541536X ISBN 13: 9780375415364

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2003

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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.

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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.

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 037541536X
• ISBN 13: 9780375415364
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 173
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