American Journey: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs

The epic road trips―and surprising friendship―of John Burroughs, nineteenth-century naturalist, and Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, inventors of the modern age.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 Ford’’s Model Ts to explore the Transcendentalist’’s New England, the trip would prove to be the first of many excursions that would take Ford and Burroughs, together with an enthusiastic Thomas Edison, across America.