American Journey Audiobook Libro.fm

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 Fords Model Ts to explore the Transcendentalists New England the trip would prove to be the first of many excursions that would take Ford and Burroughs together with Thomas Edison across America

Their road trips transported them to the 1915 PanamaPacific 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 that had already claimed thousands of lives abroad beginning to plague the United States it was an inopportune moment for travel Nevertheless each of the men who embarked on the 1918 journey would subsequently point to it as the most memorable vacation of their lives

These travels profoundly influenced the way Ford Edison and Burroughs viewed the world In American Journey Wes Davis recreates these landmark adventures through which one of the great naturalists of the nineteenth century helped the men who invented the modern age reconnect with the natural worldand reimagine the world they were creating