The vagabonds
(Book on CD)
Author
Contributors
Hamilton, Josh, narrator.
Published
[New York] : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2019].
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
8 CDs (9 hrs. 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Status
Morro Bay Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
917.30491
1 available
917.30491
1 available
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Audiobooks.
Automobile engineers -- United States -- Biography.
Automobile travel -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Biographies.
Businessmen -- United States -- Biography.
Edison, Thomas A. -- (Thomas Alva), -- 1847-1931 -- Travel -- United States.
Ford, Henry, -- 1863-1947 -- Travel -- United States.
Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Description and travel.
Vacations -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Automobile engineers -- United States -- Biography.
Automobile travel -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Biographies.
Businessmen -- United States -- Biography.
Edison, Thomas A. -- (Thomas Alva), -- 1847-1931 -- Travel -- United States.
Ford, Henry, -- 1863-1947 -- Travel -- United States.
Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Description and travel.
Vacations -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Published
[New York] : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2019].
Format
Book on CD
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Compact discs.
Participants/Performers
Read by Josh Hamilton.
Description
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 automobile soon became a desired element of American life.
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