"A Reliable Car and a Woman Who Knows It"

Anglický jazyk

"A Reliable Car and a Woman Who Knows It"

Vydavateľstvo: McFarland
Rok vydania: 2000
Formát: Paperback
Rozmer: 254 x 178 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9780786409709

The audacity of driving a horseless carriage from coast to coast in the early years of the 20th century is hard to imagine in an age of superhighways and global positioning systems.

For a woman to attempt the trip was, at the time, a jaw-dropping event.... Viac o knihe

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The audacity of driving a horseless carriage from coast to coast in the early years of the 20th century is hard to imagine in an age of superhighways and global positioning systems.

For a woman to attempt the trip was, at the time, a jaw-dropping event. Yet in 1909, 22-year-old Alice Ramsey and three female companions piled into a Maxwell in New York City, and 59 days later they triumphantly rolled into San Francisco. A few years later silent film star Anita King would become the first woman to make the transcontinental drive solo. These and other early coast-to-coast drives proved women's growing independence, as well as the automobile's long-distance viability.