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Title: Horatio's Drive : America's First Road Trip by Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns ISBN: 0-375-41536-X Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 08 July, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Surprisingly good!
Comment: In 1903, a dinner guest at the prestigious University Club in San Francisco, Vermont Dr. Horatio Jackson, took up a bet that said that he would not be able to drive one of those newfangled automobiles to New York City in less than three months. Now, this was in the days before expressways or highways or even descent roads! But, Horatio Jackson was a man of limitless energy (and deep pockets), so in four days he got himself a car (a Winton touring car), supplies and an assistant-driver, and he was off! Facing bad road, no roads, no maps, sharp rocks, deep rivers, rapacious store owners and bad directions, Jackson and compatriots (he picked up a bulldog in Idaho) overcame all obstacles and won the bet!

This is a surprisingly good book! I mean, you may not believe it, but the authors succeed in taking this subject and making a positively gripping book. I absolutely loved the many pictures of early automobiles, and the story carried me along, watching each of Horatio's adventures unfold. This is a great book, one that I highly recommend.

Rating: 5
Summary: Authors narrate this own companion to the PBS documentary
Comment: The authors narrate this own companion to the PBS documentary about the first 1903 automobile trip across the US. There were only 150 miles of paved roads in those days - but Horatio Jackson bet fifty dollars that he could drive his 20-horsepower auto from San Francisco to New York City - and his endeavor comes to life in this vivid audio memoir.

Rating: 3
Summary: Good, but not Great.
Comment: It is a fascinating story, no doubt about that. I expected a more detailed, in-depth treatment of the story though.

This book is more like a collection bits and pieces of the story.

I would rank it around the sixth grade level.

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