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Book Travel Buddies   Disney Pixar Cars

Download or read book Travel Buddies Disney Pixar Cars written by Frank Berrios and published by Golden/Disney. This book was released on 2012 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a race in London, Mater and Lightning McQueen travel the world on the way home to Radiator Springs.

Book Driving While Black  African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights

Download or read book Driving While Black African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights written by Gretchen Sorin and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bloomberg • Best Nonfiction Books of 2020: "[A] tour de force." The basis of a major PBS documentary by Ric Burns, this “excellent history” (The New Yorker) reveals how the automobile fundamentally changed African American life. Driving While Black demonstrates that the car—the ultimate symbol of independence and possibility—has always held particular importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to enjoy, in some measure, the freedom of the open road. Melding new archival research with her family’s story, Gretchen Sorin recovers a lost history, demonstrating how, when combined with black travel guides—including the famous Green Book—the automobile encouraged a new way of resisting oppression.

Book The Negro Motorist Green Book

Download or read book The Negro Motorist Green Book written by Victor H. Green and published by Colchis Books. This book was released on with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.

Book Motor Travel

Download or read book Motor Travel written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Purposes of Automobile Trips and Travel

Download or read book Purposes of Automobile Trips and Travel written by Ruth H. Asin and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Touring America by Automobile in the 1920s

Download or read book Touring America by Automobile in the 1920s written by William A Cook and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true labor of love, author William Cook has reproduced his grandmother's (Hepzy Moore Cook) narrative of the day-to-day rigors in early twentieth century vacation travel by automobile. The journals describe in great detail, a more remote, less accessible nation that existed ninety years ago during the dawn of America's love affair with the car. The oldest of the two journals written by Hepzy Moore Cook chronicles a challenging and sometimes very hazardous journey by automobile taken by her, the author's grandfather, Dr. William A. Cook and father, Ralph Moore Cook in August, 1920 from Vermillion, South Dakota to Yellowstone National Park and back again to Vermillion, covering 3,180 grueling miles in the process.

Book Jackson and Bud s Bumpy Ride

Download or read book Jackson and Bud s Bumpy Ride written by Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Horatio Jackson wasn’t necessarily a betting man. But in 1903, he overheard a stranger saying that it was just not possible to drive across the United States in one of those unreliable, newfangled automobiles. Jackson disagreed - he believed in the future of the automobile. So he made a $50 bet with the man that he could drive a car from San Francisco to New York. Jackson bought a used Winton automobile, hired a mechanic named Crocker, packed some supplies, and adopted Bud, a bulldog who became their mascot. The trio’s only goal was to make it from San Francisco all the way to New York City in one piece. Yet 5,600 miles and 63 1/2 days later, what they actually did was make history. This true story is based on Jackson’s own account of the first automobile trip across the United States. Find out more about this fascinating story by watching the book trailer: Jackson and Bud's Bumpy Ride Book Trailer: Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff

Book Transit Requirements for Achieving Large Reductions in Los Angeles Area Automobile Travel

Download or read book Transit Requirements for Achieving Large Reductions in Los Angeles Area Automobile Travel written by Joel Horowitz and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Model estimating required transit frequencies and mode splits for automobile to bus diversion.

Book Petroleum supply  Gas and other energy sources  Automobile efficiency and conservation

Download or read book Petroleum supply Gas and other energy sources Automobile efficiency and conservation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Promotion of Safety in Automobile Travel  a Typical Greenan Meredity Problem for Secondary School Students

Download or read book Promotion of Safety in Automobile Travel a Typical Greenan Meredity Problem for Secondary School Students written by John Thomas Greenan and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Motoring

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  • Author : John A. Jakle
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2008-01-01
  • ISBN : 0820330280
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book Motoring written by John A. Jakle and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motoring unmasks the forces that shape the American driving experience--commercial, aesthetic, cultural, mechanical--as it takes a timely look back at our historically unconditional love of motor travel. Focusing on recreational travel between 1900 and 1960, John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle cover dozens of topics related to drivers, cars, and highways and explain how they all converge to uphold that illusory notion of release and rejuvenation we call the "open road." Jakle and Sculle have collaborated on five previous books on the history, culture, and landscape of the American road. Here, with an emphasis on the driver's perspective, they discuss garages and gas stations, roadside tourist attractions, freeways and toll roads, truck stops, bus travel, the rise of the convenience store, and much more. All the while, the authors make us think about aspects of driving that are often taken for granted: how, for instance, the many lodging and food options along our highways reinforce the connection between driving and "freedom" and how, by enabling greater speeds, highway engineers helped to stoke motorists' "blessed fantasy of flight." Although driving originally celebrated freedom and touted a common experience, it has increasingly become a highly regulated, isolated activity. The motive behind America's first embrace of the automobile--individual prerogative--still substantially obscures this reality. "Americans did not have the automobile imposed on them," say the authors. Jakle and Sculle ask why some of the early prophetic warnings about our car culture went unheeded and why the arguments of its promoters resonated so persuasively. Today, the automobile is implicated in any number of environmental, even social, problems. As the wisdom of our dependence on automobile travel has come into serious question, reassessment of how we first became that way is more important than ever.

Book The Automobile Age

Download or read book The Automobile Age written by James J. Flink and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1990-07-19 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sweeping cultural history, James Flink provides a fascinating account of the creation of the world's first automobile culture. He offers both a critical survey of the development of automotive technology and the automotive industry and an analysis of the social effects of "automobility" on workers and consumers.

Book Canadian Travel to the United States

Download or read book Canadian Travel to the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Motor Travel

Download or read book Motor Travel written by and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The End of Automobile Dependence

Download or read book The End of Automobile Dependence written by Peter Newman and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities will continue to accommodate the automobile, but when cities are built around them, the quality of human and natural life declines. Current trends show great promise for future urban mobility systems that enable freedom and connection, but not dependence. We are experiencing the phenomenon of peak car use in many global cities at the same time that urban rail is thriving, central cities are revitalizing, and suburban sprawl is reversing. Walking and cycling are growing in many cities, along with ubiquitous bike sharing schemes, which have contributed to new investment and vitality in central cities including Melbourne, Seattle, Chicago, and New York. We are thus in a new era that has come much faster than global transportation experts Peter Newman and Jeffrey Kenworthy had predicted: the end of automobile dependence. In The End of Automobile Dependence, Newman and Kenworthy look at how we can accelerate a planning approach to designing urban environments that can function reliably and conveniently on alternative modes, with a refined and more civilized automobile playing a very much reduced and manageable role in urban transportation. The authors examine the rise and fall of automobile dependence using updated data on 44 global cities to better understand how to facilitate and guide cities to the most productive and sustainable outcomes. This is the final volume in a trilogy by Newman and Kenworthy on automobile dependence (Cities and Automobile Dependence in 1989 and Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence in 1999). Like all good trilogies this one shows the rise of an empire, in this case that of the automobile, the peak of its power, and the decline of that empire.

Book Autos Across America

Download or read book Autos Across America written by Carey S. Bliss and published by . This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: