By Motor to the Golden Gate
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-1940-1 (ISBN)
In 1915, journalist Emily Post set out from New York to investigate whether it was possible to drive comfortably across the country to San Francisco in an automobile. This is a reprint of Post's only travel book, originally published by Collier's Weekly seven years before she became famous for her book on etiquette. It describes her travels with her cousin Alice and her Harvard undergraduate son as they played the American tourists from Niagara Falls to cave dwellings near Santa Fe. A first-hand account of elite automotive travel before the process was democratized after World War I, it also shows the history of the southwest, particularly in the myths that made towns such as Santa Fe "authentic" tourist destinations, and provides contemporary comments on class and ethnicity.
A new introduction includes a biographical sketch of Post and explains the context of her journey in the heroic age of motoring. Accompanying the text are many original photographs, sketch maps showing the route, and Post's meticulous daily lists of expenditure, a valuable historical document showing the price of everything from car repairs to tips. New to this addition are explanatory footnotes and an appendix giving the miles Post traveled each day, noting the cities of departure and destination and the hotel for each night.
Award winning historian Jane Lancaster lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Jane Lancaster
Preface
I. It Can’t Be Done—But Then, It Is Perfectly Simple
II. Albany, First Stop
III. A Breakdown
IV. Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana
V. Luggage and Other Luxuries
VI. Did Anybody Say “Chicken”?
VII. The City of Ambition
VIII. A Few Chicagoans
IX. Tins
X. Mud!!
XI. In Rochelle
XII. The Weight of Public Opinion
XIII. Muddier!
XIV. One of the Fogged Impressions
XV. A Few Ways of the West
XVI. Halfway House
XVII. Next Stop, North Platte!
XVIII. The City of Recklessness
XIX. A Glimpse of the West That Was
XX. Our Little Sister of Yesterday
XXI. Ignorance with a Capital I
XXII. Some Indians and Mr. X.
XXIII. With Nowhere to Go but Out
XXIV. Into the Desert
XXV. Through the City Unpronounceable to an Exposition Beautiful
XXVI. The Land of Gladness
XXVII. The Mettle of a Hero
XXVIII. San Francisco
XXIX. The Fair
XXX. “Unending Sameness” Was What They Said
XXXI. To Those Who Think of Following in Our Tire Tracks
XXXII. On the Subject of Clothes
XXXIII. How Far Can You Go in Comfort?
Appendix: Emily Post’s Journey, April 25–June 8, 1915
Index by Jane Lancaster
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.11.2004 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 60 photos, maps, appendix, notes, index |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 381 g |
| Themenwelt | Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Auto / Motorrad |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7864-1940-7 / 0786419407 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7864-1940-1 / 9780786419401 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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